ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,002, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"High-performance large object operations" was invented by Shen Yan Sun (Beijing), Peng Hui Jiang (Beijing), Xiao Xiao Chen (Beijing) and Xiao Hui Wang (Beijing).

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) obtains a given query referencing a LOB. The program code obtains statistics and activities performed in the database system, establishes performance benchmarks, and analyzes the given query to determine how the LOB is utilized. The prog...