ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,894, issued on June 17, was assigned to AMPERITY INC. (Seattle).

"Query runtime for multi-layer composition of queries" was invented by Kailashnath Reddy Kavalakuntla (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system and method for optimizing SQL queries, specifically addressing challenges in handling and optimization of nested Common Table Expressions (CTEs). The system comprises a SQL optimization engine configured to receive SQL scripts from a SQL editor application and output optimized SQL to a query engine for execution on a database. The optimization engine utilizes three primary stages: a CTE...