US Patent Issued to NVIDIA on Feb. 10 for "Classification-based query join reordering for relational database systems and applications" (Colorado, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,625, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NVIDIA Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Classification-based query join reordering for relational database systems and applications" was invented by Andrew Francis Grove (Broomfield, Colo.) and Nuttiiya Seekhao (Alexandria, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, table classification based query join reordering for relational database systems and applications are provided. In some embodiments, a relational database system is provided that includes a join optimizer that evaluates a join clause of a query and categorizes relational database tables as either fact tables or dimension t...