ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,207, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Database node soft restart" was invented by Suhas Dantkale (Cupertino, Calif.), James E. Mace (San Francisco), Matthew Woicik (Bellevue, Wash.) and Kaushal Mittal (Mountain House, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to restarting a database node. A database node may allocate memory segments that include a restart segment for storing data records. The database node may spawn processes to read a log and replay log records of the log to update the restart segment to store data records. The database node may determine to perform ...