ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,253, issued on June 3, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Database simulation modeling framework" was invented by Zi Ye (Redmond, Wash.), Justin Grant Moeller (Eden Prairie, Minn.), Ya Lin (Bellevue, Wash.) and Willis Lang (Edina, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided for creating a resource management testing environment. An initial population of databases is established in a database ring, having an in initial count of databases and different types of databases that are determined based on an initial database population model. The initial ...