ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,079, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Fujitsu Ltd. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Entry creation method and entry creation program" was invented by Takafumi Onishi (Kawasaki, Japan) and Yasuhiko Kanemasa (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for creating an entry is performed by a computer. The method includes: determining a first time width equal to or longer than a longest time width among time widths to be read based on a read request from each program to a key-value store that holds data that corresponds to time, as a time width to be associated with one entry in the key-value store; and creating the entry that correspond...