ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,122, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Separation of logical and physical storage in a distributed database system" was invented by Alejandro Hernandez Saenz (Kirkland, Wash.), Cristian Diaconu (Kirkland, Wash.), Krystyna Ewa Reisteter (Kirkland, Wash.), Naveen Prakash (Sammamish, Wash.), Sheetal Shrotri (Redmond, Wash.), Rogerio Ramos (Redmond, Wash.), Alexander Budovski (Bellevue, Wash.) and Hanumantha Rao Kodavalla (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Distributed database systems including compute nodes and page servers are described herein that enable separating l...