ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,692, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).
"Systems and methods for a scalable versioned database" was invented by Christopher Murray (Ottawa), Franck Bohoua-Nasse (Montreal), James R. Crozman (Ottawa) and Angela Lin (Ottawa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that for a scalable versioned database that can organize data into scenarios and hives. These define how data visibility is controlled by scenarios, and how data can be transferred between scenarios. In some embodiments, queries and algorithms can be executed in independent processes, which may execute in parallel, and on independent machines....