US Patent Issued to Salesforce on Sept. 9 for "Methods of immutable deployment of persistent relational databases" (Indiana, California, Washington, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,743, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Methods of immutable deployment of persistent relational databases" was invented by Damon Ashman (Indianapolis), Vi Nguyen (Bellevue, Wash.), Rishi Zaveri (West Bloomfield, Mich.), Arockia Praveen Thargis (Indianapolis), Omar Jaber (Bellevue, Wash.), Brennan Lindamood (Attica, Ind.) and Bradley Kenneth Michel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for replacing a first server of a first node a computer network by adding a second server configured with a database system as a second node to the computer network. A snapshot...