ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,128, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System and method for in-place data writes to reduce fragmentation in a multidimensional database environment" was invented by Kumar Ramaiyer (Cupertino, Calif.), Young Joon Kim (Stanford, Calif.), Haritha Gongalore (Saratoga, Calif.), Vilas Ketkar (San Jose, Calif.) and Shubhagam Gupta (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use with a multidimensional database computing environment. Particularly, a system and method are described for performing in-place...