ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,320, issued on July 29, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands) and Douyin Vision Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Predicate evaluation based on CPU utilization of shared storage" was invented by Wei Ding (Los Angeles), Jianfeng Qian (Los Angeles), Shicai Zeng (Beijing), Li Zhang (Los Angeles) and Jianjun Chen (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hybrid transactional/analytical processing (HTAP) database includes an online transaction processing (OLTP) engine, an online analytical processing (OLAP) engine provided separately from the OLTP engine, and a shared storage holding data of multiple tenants. The shared storage...