ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,727, issued on May 20.

"Systems and methods for provisioning and decoupled maintenance of cloud-based database systems" was invented by Vitaliy Mogilevskiy (Bellevue, Wash.), Abhishek Chanda (Bellevue, Wash.), Norberto Leite (Bellevue, Wash.), Maryame Boulhajat (Bellevue, Wash.) and Miguel Pilar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are described for provisioning cloud-based database systems and performing decoupled maintenance. For example, conventional systems may rely on database management systems to provision and modify databases hosted by a service provider. However, for entities operating complex ...