ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,224, issued on July 1, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Time travel using incremental database recovery" was invented by Ivan Schreter (Malsch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include reception of a request to recover data of a first tenant to a point in time, determination of backups of first and second database table shards corresponding to the point in time, and generation of metadata associating a second tenant with the first and second shards and the backups. In response to a request to access the first second shards, it is determined based on the metadata that the first and second shards ar...