ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,779, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Query processing system and method" was invented by Divya Singh (Tokyo), Satoshi Katsunuma (Tokyo), Toshihiko Kashiyama (Tokyo), Mika Takata (Tokyo) and Prashant Kumar Sharma (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To improve resource utilization efficiency of query compliance check, which is check as to whether a query complies with a restriction imposed on data. The query compliance check is roughly divided into data flow policy check as to whether a data flow policy that defines a restriction on data transfer within a county or between countries is complied with, and org...