US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Jan. 27 for "Implementing vector index build and search using query operators" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,186, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Implementing vector index build and search using query operators" was invented by Craig Steven Freedman (Sammamish, Wash.) and Rajkumar Iyer (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that implement vector-related requests using query operators. For example, a system includes a database, a parser, a converter, an optimizer, and an execution engine. The database is associated with query operators that are non-vector-specific. The database stores a table with vector embeddings....