ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,301, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (Grand Cayman, Kiribati).

"Data migration method and device" was invented by Xin Li (Hangzhou, China), Yue Pan (Hangzhou, China), Haoran Zhang (Hangzhou, China), Bowen Zheng (Hangzhou, China) and Feifei Li (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data migration method and device, wherein the data migration method comprises: acquiring a migration request for a source database, creating a snapshot of to-be-migrated data in the source database and migrating the snapshot to a target database, reading a data migratio...