ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,158, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Understanding storage utilization of a caching system through incoming traffic" was invented by Mohamed Azmil Macksood (Oslo, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Database management techniques can gauge real-time caching states of no-schema-based (noSQL) databases (DBs) during runtime operation by maintaining a log table to reflect modifications to the noSQL DB. The log table is maintained by adding row entries to reflect modifications to the noSQL DB and therefore does not requiring querying the noSQL DB. The log table may then be dedupli...