ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,922, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Notion Labs Inc. (San Francisco).

"Database container" was invented by Marina Schimidinger Camim (San Francisco), Ken Chen (San Francisco), James Wills (San Francisco), Atul Varma (San Francisco), Michelle Lim (New York), Emily Hong (New York) and Ron Offer Yehoshua (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a database container configured to contain multiple data sources. A first command is received to add a new data source to the database container. In response, the new data source is created within the database container, where the database container acts...