ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,999, issued on May 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Database replication system and method, source end device, and destination end device" was invented by Xiaozhen Meng (Shenzhen, China), Jiantao Ma (Chengdu, China), Kaiyao Huang (Dongguan, China) and Zhixue Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a database replication operation, a source end device obtains at least two groups of transaction logs from a log file of a source end database in parallel, where the at least two groups of transaction logs include a first group of transaction logs and a second group of transaction logs. The first g...