ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,189, issued on July 22, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for efficient bulk data deletion" was invented by Angela Lin (Ottawa), Dylan Ellicott (Ottawa) and Marin Creanga (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for efficient bulk data deletion. The system comprises: 1) a deletion record set; an in-memory database representation comprising: tables and records; one or more exclusive locks for the records; and a record block index; 2) a persistent database representation comprising: record blocks; and a transaction log. The method comprises: receiving, by a processor, a deletion record set; a...