ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,793, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Campbell, Calif.).

"Failover of database sessions to a logical replica database" was invented by Carol Lyndall Colrain (Kansas City, Kan.), Xiaoli Qi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Kevin S. Neel (San Mateo, Calif.), Stephen J. Vivian (Londonderry, N.H.), Michael Cusson (Woburn, Mass.), Yunrui Li (Los Altos, Calif.) and Jonathan Giloni (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for failing over from a primary database to the replicated logical database of the primary database. Techniques are also described for the client-side object references ...