ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,963, issued on Oct. 7.
"Retrieving data identifiers from queue for search of external data system" was invented by Alexandros Batsakis (San Francisco), Nitilaksha Satyaveera Halakatti (San Jose, Calif.), Ningxuan He (San Francisco), Prem Kumar Jayaraj (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Manuel Gregorio Martinez (San Francisco), Balaji Rao (San Jose, Calif.), Jianming Zhang (Campbell, Calif.) and Steve Yu Zhang (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device can receive a query that identifies a set of data to be processed and determine that a portion of the set of data resides in an external data system. The query system can request...