ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,293, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Streaming change logs from streaming database tables" was invented by Allan George Schrum (Bozeman, Mont.) and Brandon Johnson (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As with database tables in general, a streaming table and its columns are defined within by a database. DML commands are issued against a streaming table that specify to insert rows and values into their defined columns. Change records in a change log (e.g., redo log) are generated to record the changes specified by DML commands. The change log may be used to stream da...