ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,107, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SingleStore Inc. (San Francisco).

"Durable functions in database systems" was invented by Bailey Hayes (Cary, N.C.) and Carl Sverre (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system and a computer implemented method for managing functions in the database system is provided. The method, implemented using instructions that may be stored in the database system, involves obtaining first data representing a set of one or more operations to be performed on data in the database system. Second data, representing a function definition, is derived from the first data and the function de...