ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,362, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Database configuration setting overrides" was invented by Prateek Swamy (Fremont, Calif.), Yi Xia (Los Angeles), Colm McHugh (Dublin) and Bradley Glasbergen (Squamish, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to database configuration settings overrides. In some embodiments, a database system stores a set of default configuration settings that control operation of the database system. The database system receives a query requesting data from the database system, and metadata about the query. The database system determines, based...