ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,892, issued on March 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Processing large query results in a database accelerator environment" was invented by Felix Beier (Haigerloch, Germany), Knut Stolze (Hummelshain, Germany), Reinhold Geiselhart (Rottenburg-Ergenzingen, Germany) and Luis Eduardo Oliveira Lizardo (Boblingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for facilitating large data transfers from a first data management system to a second data management system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving data from the first data management system by a first buffer com...