ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,742, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Rate-limited mechanism for querying a non-tabular database" was invented by Ravi Shekhar Jha (Galway, Ireland) and Eoghan Shields (Galway, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for querying a nontabular database in a Containers-as-a-Service (CaaS) platform including using rate-limited mechanisms. A keeper service receives a vendor-specific request with a query path, validates it against predefined paths, and determines a parameter for rate-limit calculation. The request is translated into a vendor-neutral query command if t...