ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,749, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Method to intelligently compare database in resumable batch mode" was invented by Hui Wang (Beijing), Yu Mei Dai (Beijing), Xiang Yu Xue (Rizhao, China), Mai Zeng (Beijing), Xiao Chen Huang (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing) and Wei Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to intelligently compare a database in resumable batch mode is provided. A number of processor units reallocate a plurality of available threads among at least one of the tPartitioner, the plurality of tCombiners, and the diffReporter usin...