ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,211, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Database request handling during data migration between physical nodes" was invented by Venkateswararao Jujjuri (Beaverton, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to migrating database extents between physical storage nodes. A database system stores current and new assignment metadata mapping virtual groupings of database extents physical storage nodes, the new assignment metadata reflecting a data migration of extents between the plurality of physical storage nodes. During the migration, the database system receives 1) read reque...