ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,518, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Load-aware selection of query execution databases" was invented by Keshav Singh (Baar, Switzerland), Mia Primorac (Zurich), Knut Anders Hatlen (Trondheim, Norway), Nitin Kunal (Zurich), Nemanja Stojoski (Zurich), Jian Wen (Hollis, N.H.), Malika Agarwal (Bangalore, India), Federico Lusiani (Zurich), Georgios Psaropoulos (Opfikon, Switzerland), Cagri Balkesen (Zurich), Norvald Ryeng (Trondheim, Norway), Kajori Banerjee (West Bengal, India), Nipun Agarwal (Saratoga, Calif.) and Till Kolditz (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein ...