ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,916, issued on March 18, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Redo avoidance during database recovery" was invented by Akshay Manchale Sridhar (San Francisco), Matthew Woicik (Bellevue, Calif.) and James E. Mace (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to a database recovery routine to start up a database system in response to a database failure. The database system accesses checkpoint information identifying a set of active database transactions that were active at a flush point that occurred before the database failure. As a part of the database recovery routine, the database sys...