ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,338, issued on June 3, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Mechanisms for deploying database clusters" was invented by Varun Jobanputra (New York City, N.Y.) and Joshua Gruenberg (Bozeman, Mont.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that pertain to deploying immutable instances of a system. A computer system may maintain an active generation value that indicates an immutable instance of a database system that is permitted to write data to a database. The computer system may deploy a first immutable instance of the database system and update the active generation value to permit the first immutable insta...