US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on July 1 for "Communicating updates to system metadata via a database system" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,324, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Communicating updates to system metadata via a database system" was invented by Mark Schmidt (Quincy, Ill.) and Finley Jordan Lau (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system is operable to communicate first system metadata to a plurality of nodes in a first temporal period, where each node of the plurality of nodes updates corresponding system configuration data as the first system metadata. At least one database function is performed in the first temporal period via the plurality of nodes operating in conjunction with the first system metadata. Updat...