ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,301, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Diskless active data guard as cache" was invented by Yunrui Li (Los Altos, Calif.), Wei-Ming Hu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Juan R. Loaiza (Woodside, Calif.), J. William Lee (Saratoga, Calif.), Adam Y. Lee (Palo Alto, Calif.), Carlos Ruiz (Madrid), Amrish Srivastava (San Ramon, Calif.), Garret F. Swart (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Mahesh Baburao Girkar (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein for an integrated in-front database cache ("IIDC") providing an in-memory, consistent, and automatically managed cache f...