ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,483, issued on March 4, was assigned to GRABTAXI HOLDINGS PTE. LTD. (Singapore).

"Data base system and method for maintaining a data base" was invented by Muqi Li (Issaquah, Wash.), Shiqi Zhong (Bellevue, Wash.), Chao Wang (Kirkland, Wash.), Jun Liu (Bothell, Wash.) and Varun Kansal (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects concern a data base system comprising a data base for storing entity states, a configuration interface configured to receive, for an entity state type, a specification of an entity state data format for writing an entity state of the entity state type to the data base and a data base access interfac...