ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,440, issued on July 29, was assigned to Alibaba Innovation Private Ltd. (Singapore).
"High-performance key-value store" was invented by Zhu Pang (Bellevue, Wash.), Qingda Lu (Bellevue, Wash.), Shuo Chen (Bellevue, Wash.), Yikang Xu (Redmond, Wash.), Jiesheng Wu (Redmond, Wash.) and Rui Wang (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A key-value store is provided, implementing multiple-tiered sorted data structures in memory and storage, including concurrent write buffers in memory, and page-level consolidation of updates on storage, where pages are trivially translated in physical-to-virtual address mapping. The key-value store i...