ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,731, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Partitioning mechanism for parallel processing in delta generation" was invented by Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Vikram Singh Bisht (Seattle), Viggnesh Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Ravi Lingappa Shamanna (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for partitioning B-tree keys of file systems into key ranges for parallel processing in delta generation during file storage replications between file systems in different cloud infrastructure regions. In certain embodiments, a delta gene...