ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,563, issued on March 31, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Canada).

"Using persistent memory and remote direct memory access to reduce write latency for database logging" was invented by Kesavan Puliyur Srinivasan (Hudson, Ohio), Jia Shi (Campbell, Calif.), Vijay Sridharan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Zuoyu Tao (Belmont, Calif.) and Shreyas Udgaonkar (Baton Rouge, La.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an approach to implement persistent memory to hold log records upon a commit for a database system. The approach may use RDMA techniques to hold change records at a remote persistent memory location."

The...