ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,163, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Foundational machine learning model for learned database tasks" was invented by Fatma Ozcan (San Jose, Calif.), Ioannis Chronis (Los Gatos, Calif.), Yu Gan (Seattle), Carsten Binnig (Elztal, Germany), Johannes Wehrstein (Darmstadt, Germany), Shobha Vasudevan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Yawen Wang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a foundational model for learned database tasks. The foundational model can be task-independent and used with low overhead to accomplish various learned database tasks. The foundat...