US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Oct. 7 for "Machine learning accelerated semantic equivalence detection" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,950, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine learning accelerated semantic equivalence detection" was invented by Brandon Barry Haynes (Seattle), Rana Bijad M Alotaibi (Redmond, Wash.), Anna Pavlenko (Edmonds, Wash.), Yuanyuan Tian (San Jose, Calif.), Jyoti Leeka (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Alekh Jindal (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples detect equivalent subexpressions within a computational workload. Examples include converting a query plan tree associated with a first subexpression into a matrix. The first subexpression is a portion of a database query from the compu...