ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,806, issued on May 20, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for data access acceleration and control within a secure storage network" 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 includes: communicatively coupling an object database, a first application, and a second application; loading: a first set of data indices into a first pri...