US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Nov. 11 for "GPU-based database operators using the graphics pipeline" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,708, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"GPU-based database operators using the graphics pipeline" was invented by Harish Doraiswamy (Karnataka, India), Karthik Saligrama Ramachandra (Karnataka, India) and Jayant Ramaswamy Haritsa (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for using the computer graphics pipeline to execute database query operations on a graphics processing unit (GPU). The methods and systems use the graphics pipeline to transform relational data into images of the relational data. The methods and systems ...