US Patent Issued to Kinaxis on Nov. 18 for "Systems and methods for efficient consolidation of record blocks" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,849, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for efficient consolidation of record blocks" was invented by Angela Lin (Ottawa), Marin Creanga (Ottawa) and Dylan Ellicott (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for efficient consolidation of record blocks in a data base. 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, b...