ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,563, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Sharded database load distributor" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Nadav Azaria (Be'er Sheva, Israel) and Yonit Weiss (Lehavim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can divide a database into a group of shards that are distributed among a group of data centers. The system can train a machine learning model on a group of labeled input data, wherein the group of labeled input data comprises respective requests to operate on the database, and wherein the respective requests are labeled with respective shards of the group of shards...