ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,130, issued on June 23, was assigned to SingleStore Inc. (San Francisco).

"Separation of storage and compute in database management systems" was invented by Joseph Victor (Oakland, Calif.), Adam Prout (Mississauga, Canada), Rodrigo Toste Gomes (San Francisco) and Kai Yuan Lung (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method of managing data in a database management system comprising a first, master storage, node and a second node for performing operations on data stored in the database. The method comprises configuring the second node to perform a set of steps. The second node is configured to write data in...