ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,744, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Method and system for configuring a log-structured merge (LSM)-tree structure for a key-value database" was invented by Siqiang Luo (Singapore), Junfeng Liu (Singapore) and Fan Wang (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of configuring a Log-Structured Merge (LSM)-tree structure for a key-value database is provided. The LSM-tree structure having a series of levels. The method includes: obtaining a value for a level capacity parameter associated with a largest level of the series of levels of the LSM-tree structure; determining values ...