ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,934, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Alibaba Cloud Computing Co. Ltd. Alibaba (China) Co. Ltd. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method and device for processing database tasks, hot and cold data" was invented by Teng Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Jian Tan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jianying Wang (Hangzhou, China) and Feifei Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide a database task processing method, a hot and cold data processing method, a storage engine, a device, and a storage medium. In the embodiments of this application, a database storage engine is integrated with a machine learning model, involved dat...