ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,001, issued on March 18, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Transfer of a set of segments between storage clusters of a database system" was invented by George Kondiles (Chicago), Finley Jordan Lau (Chicago), Alyssa Catherine Wagenmaker (Chicago), Anna Veselova (Chicago) and Natalia Marie Jenuwine (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transfer segment group task processing module of a database system is operable to send a first begin segment group transfer instruction to a first storage cluster based on a determination to transfer a set of segments stored via the first storage cluster to a second storage cluster. A ...