US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on June 17 for "Multi-step query execution in SQL server" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,889, issued on June 17, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Multi-step query execution in SQL server" was invented by Craig Steven Freedman (Sammamish, Wash.), Chandrashekhar Kadiam (Bothell, Wash.), Devin L. Rider (Renton, Wash.) and Daniel Georg Schall (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer program products are provided that construct and execute multi-step query plans in a database application. A database application accepts a query such as, for example, a graph query. The database application generates a physical query plan comprising a set of execution step...