"Now it also has a patent that gives credence to its claims that its elastic database is truly innovative." Regardless of any innovation NuoDB may bring, can t

"Now it also has a patent that gives credence to its claims that its elastic database is truly innovative." Regardless of any innovation NuoDB may bring, can this phrase really be credibly stated, given everything we've seen in the patent arena? Edit: and the article ends with this paragraph: "We all know technology patents are tricky business — see GigaOM’s Jeff John Roberts’ continuing coverage of the raging patent troll epidemic — but it does show that NuoDB may really be onto something here with its self-scaling elastic database." However, no technical details are given as to what the innovations are, just that the underpinning technology is so innovative that there weren't even names for what they're doing.