ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,389, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Entity snapshots partitioning and combining" was invented by Sergey Troshin (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sachin Bhatkar (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sunil Kunisetty (Fremont, Calif.) and Shivakumar Subramanian Govindarajapuram (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to improving efficiency of data analytics performed on sets of entity data in which different entity properties having very different update frequencies. Time-based analytical queries track the entity states at each moment within a given time window. Analytical querie...