ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,289, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Beijing Oceanbase Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Plan execution method, apparatus, and system for distributed database" was invented by Mingdou Tang (Hangzhou, China), Yi Pan (Hangzhou, China), Tao Zhu (Hangzhou, China) and Huang Yu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plan execution method, apparatus, and system for a distributed database are provided. The plan execution method is performed by a first execution thread on a plan execution node. Feedback data returned by a child logical subplan of a current logical subplan is received in parallel with at least one second execution ...