ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,088, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to eBay Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Data quality check using a structured query language hint" was invented by Shaojie Wu (Shanghai), Liming Zhu (Shanghai) and Geng Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data quality check using a structured query language hint is described. A query optimizer of a database management system may receive a data quality check instruction as part of a database query statement for a database query. The query optimizer may modify a query execution plan for the database query based on the data quality check instruction so that completion of the database query is de...