ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,595, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to MongoDB Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for automatic index creation in database deployment" was invented by Cailin Anne Nelson (Boulder, Colo.), John Morales (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Jonathan Balsano (New York), Isabel Peters (Delray Beach, Fla.) and Mark Porter (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an auto-index system may be provided to determine one or more candidate indexes to be automatically created in a database system. The auto-index system may determine if one or more criteria associated with creating the one or more candidate indexes are met. In response to d...