ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,675, issued on June 2, was assigned to Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC (New York).

"Storing and querying alternate scenarios of data in a database" was invented by Mahesh K. Vellanki (Kendall Park, N.J.), Mehul Shah (Chesterfield, N.J.), Sumit Kumar Rastogi (Bengaluru, India) and Kishor Pangaluru (Croydon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system allows users to define alternate scenarios in a database to allow users to analyze the data to determine what happens if certain values of some of the fields were different from the values stored in the database during its actual operation. The system stores a source dataset representing...