ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,678, issued on June 2, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Partial database update based on lightweight join" was invented by Gil Omer (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine is configured to access an authoritative database of data fields, where each data field has a corresponding authoritative value and a corresponding update time. The machine accesses a propagation time that was last updated in response to a most recent propagation of updated authoritative values from the authoritative database to a recipient database. The machine performs a database join that joins only any unpropagated authoritative valu...