US Patent Issued to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL on July 29 for "System and method for patching database as a service with minimal downtime" (Saudi Arabia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,422, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAUDI ARABIAN OIL COMPANY (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

"System and method for patching database as a service with minimal downtime" was invented by Alalaa N. Tashkandi (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system are disclosed for preparing and providing database patching as a service. At least one computing device generates a model for implementing steps for database patching. The model includes steps for uptime processes and downtime processes. The computing device(s) determine a new patch to be applied to a respective database and clones the model. Further, the compu...