ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,470, issued on March 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Anticipatory pre-execution of data queries" was invented by Colin Zima (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the disclosure provide for anticipatory pre-execution of queries. In an implementation of the disclosure, a method for anticipatory pre-execution of queries includes the computation of an execution cost of each of a multiplicity of different queries to a data source scheduled at a specified time on a specified date. The method also includes monitoring a querying processing schedule and detecting from the monitoring, unsche...