ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,989, issued on March 18, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).
"Versioned relational dataset management" was invented by Ralph Acker (Munich) and David Dominguez (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A versioned dataset is managed. An updated versioned dataset is created by applying a structured query to a specific version of multiple versions of the versioned dataset stored in the backing dataset. Data of the versions including the specific version remain unchanged. A versioned dataset catalogue is updated to include in association with the updated dataset version, the structured query and lineage indicati...