ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,598,135, issued on April 7, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Techniques to balance log structured merge trees" was invented by Alexander Tomlinson (Austin, Texas), Gaurav Sanjay Ramdasi (Austin, Texas), Greg Alan Becker (Austin, Texas), Nabeel Meeramohideen Mohamed (Round Rock, Texas), Steven Andrew Moyer (Round Rock, Texas) and Tristan Antonio Partin (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for techniques to balance log structured merge trees are described. A computing system may rebalance a tree structure having an ordered set of leaf nodes by splitting or joining leaf nodes of ...