ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,861, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system for efficient data management in distributed database system" was invented by Hoi Ieng Lao (Markham, Canada), Ronen Grosman (Markham, Canada), Yuk Kuen Chan (Markham, Canada), Chung Yin Alan Wong (Toronto) and Dmitri Abrashkevich (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides methods, systems and apparatus for efficient data management in distributed database system. According to an aspect, a method is provided. The method includes relocating a first table and a second table of a database ...