ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,305, issued on July 29, was assigned to Pliops Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Separated database management" was invented by Roey Maor (Tel Aviv, Israel), Edward Bortnikov (Tel Aviv, Israel), Eshcar Hillel (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Moshe Twitto (Givat Shemuel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating a key-value (KV) storage system, the method includes (a) receiving a request to write a KV pair to the KV storage system; (b) storing the KV pair in an input buffer that is maintained in a volatile memory module of the KV storage system; (c) storing the KV pair in a separated KV database that is maintained in a non-volatile me...