ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,265, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Recovery of a target database system" was invented by Dennis Butterstein (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany), Sabine Perathoner-Tschaffler (Nufringen, Germany), Iliyana Ivanova (Boeblingen, Germany) and Christian Michel (Sindelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The method comprises: receiving multiple database tables from a source database system to form the target database system; receiving multiple batches of database transactions. The method further comprises repeatedly performing the following for a current batch of the mul...