ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,224, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing metadata management" was invented by Vijayendra Lakkundi (Hyderabad, India), Nagarajan Muthukrishnan (Redwood Shores, Calif.) and Ravi Thammaiah (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an improved approach to manage hierarchical metadata for a database system. A hierarchical metadata structure pertaining to a hierarchical object structure of a multitenant database architecture for a plurality of tenants may be maintained where the multitenant databas...