ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,397, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Client devices and data storage server for selective storing of data" was invented by Eli Shemer (Bnei Berak, Israel) and Shay Akirav (Bnei Berak, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A client device for storing a data set in a database is provided. The data set includes a plurality of initial data elements. The client device is configured to determine a storage location of the database for each initial data element and to obtain storage location configuration information based on the storage location. The client device is further configured to ...