US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Nov. 11 for "Continuous cloud-scale query optimization and processing" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,699, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Continuous cloud-scale query optimization and processing" was invented by Nicolas Bruno (Bellevue, Wash.) and Jingren Zhou (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Runtime statistics from the actual performance of operations on a set of data are collected and utilized to dynamically modify the execution plan for processing a set of data. The operations performed are modified to include statistics collection operations, the statistics being tailored to the specific operations being quantified. Optimization policy defines how often opti...