US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 29 for "Query optimization for planner statistics for databases" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,431, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Query optimization for planner statistics for databases" was invented by Jain Sachinkumar (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Kapish Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Gaurav Mehrotra (Pune, India).

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) that obtains a user query. The program code selects just in time (JIT) statistics relevant for use by a cost optimizer to generate a plan file for executing the user query by determining, based on JIT metadata in a JIT st...