US Patent Issued to Dassault Systemes on June 10 for "Table partitioning within distributed database systems" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,846, issued on June 10, was assigned to Dassault Systemes SE (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Table partitioning within distributed database systems" was invented by Michael Thomas Rice (Bellingham, Mass.), Oleg Levin (Acton, Mass.), Yan Avlasov (Lexington, Mass.), Seth Theodore Proctor (Arlington, Mass.) and Thomas Jonathan Harwood (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for implementing a unified partitioning scheme within distributed database systems to allow a table to be horizontally partitioned and those partitions stored on and serviced by a storage group. A storage group is a subset of storage m...