ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,327, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Database schema for efficient queries and data storage" was invented by Wiebke Hurrelmann (Berlin), Valencio Cardoso (San Diego), Srinivas Naik Lavudiya (Hyderabad, India), Swapnil Gupta (Hyderabad, India), Allan Sabol (Poway, Calif.), Kartheek Nandiki (Hyderabad, India), Abishek Ashes Bera (Kolkata, India), Mei Yeh (Lakeport, Calif.) and Somesh Bose (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment may involve: identifying an entry in a database table representing an individual; determining, based on one or more capabilities database table...