ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,400, issued on July 29, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Dynamic methods for improving query performance for a secure storage system" was invented by Peter Gassner (Pleasanton, Calif.), Jonathan Stone (Olympia, Wash.), Derek Allwardt (Pleasanton, Calif.), Qing Yang (Pleasanton, Calif.), Vinayak Shenoi (San Ramon, Calif.), Arvind Talari (Dublin, Calif.) and David Ding Sun (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed method comprises: determining a first data store and a second data store; receiving a first computing command; executing a prioritization computing operation, based on the first ...