ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,520, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Rebuilding portions of virtual segments based on power" was invented by George Kondiles (Chicago) and Daniel Coombs (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system operates by: identifying at least two data portions in a first segment for rebuilding, wherein the at least two data portions is a proper subset of a plurality of sequential data portions; generating a locally rebuilt set of rows for the at least two data portions based on power consumption and: determining at least two corresponding data portions of at least one other segment in the segment gr...