US Patent Issued to Xero on April 21 for "Methods and systems for performing database operations" (New Zealander Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,388, issued on April 21, was assigned to Xero Ltd. (Te Aro, New Zealand).

"Methods and systems for performing database operations" was invented by Cassandra Mcfaull (Te Aro, New Zealand) and Geoff Thornburrow (Te Aro, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for performing a query operation on a database comprise selecting a connection to the database from a plurality of connections to the database, the connections being arranged within a data structure and each having a predetermined number of query slots; waiting for a query slot to be available on the selected connection; in response to determining that the predetermine...