ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,831, issued on May 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Query resource optimizer" was invented by Hong Mei Zhang (Beijing), Shuo Li (Beijing), Xiaobo Wang (Beijing) and Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes training, by a computing device, a model to identify SQL queries; identifying, by the computing device, incoming SQL queries; grouping, by the computing device, the incoming SQL queries into groups; monitoring, by the computing device, resource usage of the incoming SQL queries in the groups; and allocating, by the computing device, resources to an SQL query o...