US Patent Issued to Peregrine Technologies on Sept. 29 for "Database sharding based on a universally unique identifier (UUID)" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,778, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Peregrine Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Database sharding based on a universally unique identifier (UUID)" was invented by Jonathan Robert Emord (Boston), Wyatt Wade Berlinic (Cambridge, Mass.) and Benjamin Daniel Rudolph (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a process for database sharding based on a universally unique identifier (UUID) includes receiving a database record having a unique identifier comprising a first bit-field encoding an organization identifier and a second bit-field encoding a secondary identifier, wherein the unique identifier is uti...