US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 8 for "Database aware, space efficient, high performance, snapshots on hyper-scale distributed storage" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,776, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Database aware, space efficient, high performance, snapshots on hyper-scale distributed storage" was invented by Nilesh Choudhury (Redwood City, Calif.), Krishnan Meiyyappan (Fremont, Calif.), Semen Ustimenko (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Boris Erlikhman (Mountain View, Calif.), Siddharth Choudhary (Redwood City, Calif.) and Scott Martin (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database-aware storage server provides instant creation of snapshots without the need to create an intermediate test master database. During the snapshot creatio...