ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,891, issued on March 25, was assigned to Beijing OceanBase Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Hybrid database implementations" was invented by Zhifeng Yang (Hangzhou, China), Quanqing Xu (Hangzhou, China) and Chuanhui Yang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for transaction processing. In an example method, a system receives a first transaction. The system is configured as a hybrid database to dynamically switch between a stand-alone mode and a distributed mode. The system determines whether the first transac...