ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,324, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Dynamic performance tuning based on implied data characteristics" was invented by Joseph Marc Posner (Oakland, Calif.), Sunil Kumar Kunisetty (Fremont, Calif.), Mohan Kamath (Fremont, Calif.), Nickolas Kavantzas (Emerald Hills, Calif.), Sachin Bhatkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sergey Troshin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sujay Sarkhel (San Jose, Calif.), Shivakumar Subramanian Govindarajapuram (Dublin, Calif.) and Vijayalakshmi Krishnamurthy (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improving system performance based on data chara...