US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 18 for "System and method for efficient query processing" (Massachusetts, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,134, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System and method for efficient query processing" was invented by Venkatesh S. Gopal (Overland Park, Kan.), Brajesh Pandey (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Nadiya Kochura (Bolton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for optimized data partition selection for related queries. A query to be executed over a plurality of data records is received. The plurality of data records comprises a first set of data records stored in a first database distributed across a plurality of partitions and a second set of data records stored in a sec...