ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,594, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Spatial-temporal storage system, method, and recording medium" was invented by Raghu Kiran Ganti (Elmsford, N.Y.), Shen Li (Urbana, Ill.) and Mudhakar Srivatsa (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A spatial-temporal storage method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium include dynamically managing a plurality of region servers for querying spatiotemporal data in noSQL databases."

The patent was filed on Sept. 23, 2021, under Application No. 17/482,651.

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