ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,437, issued on July 29, was assigned to Ignite ScalArc Solutions Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Method and system for transparent database query caching" was invented by Varun Singh (Santa Clara, Calif.), Uday V. Sawant (Mumbai, India), Prateek Goel (Roorkee, India) and Naresh G. Deshavini (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Roughly described, a database accelerator is installed in a network having client systems which makes database queries to a particular IP address and port, and database servers which accept queries received at an IP address and port. The accelerator includes a cache, and is arranged to receive, through a networ...