ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,115, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Database offload with node-to-node communication" was invented by Kyle Barron-Kraus (East Lansing, Mich.), Benedetto Fiorelli (Milan), Vinamra Misra (Hyderabad, India), Shasank Maturi (Hyderabad, India), Kavish Jain (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Andre Michel Milton (Montreal).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embodiment may involve conducting, by an application node, an operation with a database node, wherein the application node and the database node are both within a computational instance of nodes; transmitting, by the application node and to each o...