ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,699, issued on March 31, was assigned to Micro Focus LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Establishing communication stream with database control agent over which database commands are dispatched for execution against database" was invented by Xiaojing He (Cambridge, Mass.) and Daniel L. Christensen (Provo, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Management program code is executable by a management server on a management network to perform processing. The processing includes establishing a communication stream with a database control agent for a database on a database network separate from the management network, without opening any ports on th...