ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,927, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Database object lifecycle states" was invented by David Gershuni (Carmel, Ind.), Punit B. Shah (Castro Valley, Calif.), Mikhail Lychagin (San Francisco), Rama K. Korlapati (El Segundo, Calif.) and Rui Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to updating a database schema. A computer system may store database schema versions for a database schema. A given schema version may have an active state or one of multiple non-active states. One of the schema versions may be a first schema version that is in the active state ...