ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,021, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).
"Partitioning data in a versioned database" was invented by Marin Creanga (Ottawa) and Dylan Ellicott (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for partitioning data in a versioned database, comprising: initializing, a list of empty partitions; initializing a new empty partition as a current partition; selecting a lead scenario for placement in the current partition, the lead scenario having a size less than a maximum partition size; placing the lead scenario into the current partition; marking the lead scenario as processed; obtaining a list of candidate s...