ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,290, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Query optimization and distribution" was invented by Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India), Arin Sara Mathew (Kochi, India), Kanchana Padmanabhan (San Jose, Calif.), Shweta Shandilya (Bangalore, India) and Sriram Srinivasan (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods, systems, and computer program products include program code executing on a processor(s) monitors query execution within the database system within the multiple databases and by the multiple query optimization engines. The program code retains...