ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,724, issued on May 20, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Incremental recovery for a cloud database" was invented by Ivan Schreter (Malsch, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods include storage a backup of a first shard of a first database table of a database in a first backup location, the first shard including a first key range of the first database table, storage of a backup of a second shard of the first database table in a second backup location, the second shard including a second key range of the first database table, reception of an instruction to recover the database, and, in response to the in...