ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,434, issued on July 8, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Data guard at PDB (pluggable database) level" was invented by Yunrui Li (Fremont, Calif.), Giridhar Ravipati (Foster City, Calif.), Ian Neall (Henley-on-Thames, Great Britain), Frank de Lange (Woerden, Netherlands), Jing Zheng (Foster City, Calif.), Mahesh Girkar (Los Altos, Calif.), David Gagne (Goffstown, N.H.), Nitin Karkhanis (Nashua, N.H.), Sadhana Kyathappala (Westford, Mass.) and Qingguang Cui (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Herein is high availability for online transaction processing with redundancy and redo for...