ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,379, issued on April 14, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Optimizing database cursor operations in key-value stores" was invented by Jacob Mulamootil Jacob (Cedar Park, Texas), Gaurav Sanjay Ramdasi (Austin, Texas) and Alexander Tomlinson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a memory device a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to receive a request to identify a target key in a key-value store based on a specified key; identify, in at least one of a plurality of sequences of memory keys, the target key based on the specifie...