ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,771, issued on April 29, was assigned to Couchbase Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"High density data storage based on log structured storage techniques" was invented by Sarath Lakshman (Mahe, India), Apaar Gupta (Bangalore, India), Rohan Ashok Suri (Mumbai, India), Scott David Lashley (Portland, Ore.), John Sae Liang (Palo Alto, Calif.), Srinath Duvuru (Portland, Ore.) and David James Oliver Rigby (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system uses a hybrid key-value storage engine that uses log-structured merge tree and a segmented log-structured object store. The system performs garbage collection of stale document ...