ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,856, issued on May 13, was assigned to China UnionPay Co. Ltd. (Shanghai).

"Full backup method and apparatus for distributed database system, and computer-readable storage medium" was invented by Jiajing Zhou (Shanghai), Hao Miao (Shanghai) and Jien Zhou (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for performing a full backup for a distributed database system, and a computer-readable storage medium. Said method comprises: acquiring full backup data of each data node in the distributed database system, with a full-backup time point corresponding to the full backup data being a time...