US Patent Issued to Oracle International on April 29 for "Self-optimizing database objects using virtual segments" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,784, issued on April 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Self-optimizing database objects using virtual segments" was invented by Teck Hua Lee (Newark, Calif.), Yu Chieh Fu (Redmond, Wash.), Sujatha Muthulingam (San Ramon, Calif.) and Vicente Hernandez Jimenez (Zapopan, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for optimizing storage of database data records in segments using sub-segments. A segment may be comprised of a plurality of extents that contain data blocks and a plurality of references to sub-segments. Sub-segments are containers that contain other extents. A request ...