ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,294, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Selection of storage servers based on clustering bands" was invented by Vamsi Penumatsa (Bangalore, India), Swaroop Jayanthi (Hyderabad, India), Ramalinga Raju Kalidindi (Hyderabad, India) and Vaibhav Wadikar (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method receives a request for accessing a database and selects a band from a plurality of bands for the request based on a characteristic of the request. A band is associated with a set of characteristics. The method selects a storage server for the band determines whether the storage ...