ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,636, issued on March 24, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Resource efficient partial bootstrap" was invented by Saikiran Sri Thunuguntla (Bangalore, India), Vishal Reddy Baddam (Bangalore, India), Santhosh Kumar H M (Bangalore, India) and Tushar Singhal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for a resource efficient partial bootstrap of one or more databases. Instead of the typical requirement of deleting all data from a destination database and performing a full bootstrap when deletions in data at a data source occurs, implementations herein disclose a resource effici...