ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,414, issued on July 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Database query optimization based on analytics" was invented by Srikumar Venugopal (Dublin), Alessandro Pomponio (Dublin), Vasileios Vasileiadis (Dublin) and Stefano Braghin (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for query management optimization in a distributed data management system. In one embodiment, at least one query is received. The query is then analyzed and related information associated with the query is obtained. When information exists in a database relating t...