ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,503, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Schema snapshot isolation access in a relational database" was invented by Noah Amin Al-Shihabi (Seattle), Panagiotis Antonopoulos (Redmond, Wash.), Hanumantha Rao Kodavalla (Sammamish, Wash.), Nikolas Christopher Ogg (Seattle), Divyesh Rameshchandra Tikmani (Telangana, India), Wonseok Kim (Sammamish, Wash.), Alexander Wai-man Swanson (Redmond, Wash.) and Rajat Jain (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Relational database systems are disclosed that are enabled to operate with versioned metadata. The relational database system include...