ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,368, issued on June 3, was assigned to DOUYIN VISION Co. LTD. (Beijing).

"Method, device, and storage medium for scheduling a distributed database" was invented by Gang Zhao (Beijing), Qiang Chen (Beijing), Ziqi Gao (Beijing) and Kang Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The embodiments provide a method, device, and storage medium for scheduling a distributed database. Load states of respective storage units in a first storage node in a distributed database are detected by any of a plurality of management devices of a distributed database, and a hotspot partition of the first storage unit is determined based on the load states; ...