ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,683, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Methods, systems, and computer program products for efficiently accessing an ordered sequence in a clustered database environment" was invented by Chinmayi Krishnappa (San Mateo, Calif.) and Shasank Kisan Chavan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are improved systems, computer program products, and methods for efficiently accessing an ordered sequence in a clustered database environment. The approach includes receiving multiple requests for ordered sequence numbers from a plurality of entities. These multiple entries ...