ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,380, issued on April 21, was assigned to Embarcadero Technologies Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Run-time performance of a database" was invented by Brett Hawton (Alamo, Calif.) and James B. Pitts (Aptos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are disclosed for improving run-time performance of a database. A development database comprising code is accessed by a computer system. Data statistics are generated, at the computer system, based on testing the code against a second database, the data statistics based on performance metrics of how the development database would perform as the second database. The data statistics a...