ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,100, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Using ad-hoc stored procedures for online transaction processing" was invented by Mayank Lahiri (San Francisco), Jayakrishnan Balakrishnan Nair (San Ramon, Calif.) and Padmaja U. Mantravadi (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method of using ad-hoc stored procedures for OLTP operations includes: identifying, by a processing device, one or more values for updating a dataset stored in a database; creating an ad-hoc stored procedure comprising a sequence of commands specifying atomically-executable database update operations with respect to th...