ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,641, issued on July 14, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Increasing OLTP throughput by improving the performance of logging using persistent memory storage" was invented by Yunrui Li (Fremont, Calif.), Graham Ivey (Hook, Great Britain), Shampa Chakravarty (Pleasant Hill, Calif.) and Vsevolod Panteleenko (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an embodiment, before modifying a persistent ORL (ORL), a database management system (DBMS) persists redo for a transaction and acknowledges that the transaction is committed. Later, the redo is appended onto the ORL. The DBMS stores first redo f...