ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,262, issued on May 27, was assigned to PAYPAL INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Configuration-aware micro-database caches" was invented by Shanmukh Sista (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for using dispersed cached data stored in multiple database nodes for serving database access requests are described herein. Upon receiving a request for data from a requesting device, a first application server determines whether the requested data is stored in a local cache memory. If it is determined that the requested data is not stored in the local cache memory, without accessing a local, first database, the first app...