ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,786, issued on April 29, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Allocating partitions for storing a data set for subsequent query execution" was invented by George Kondiles (Chicago) and Jason Arnold (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device is operable to receive a plurality of partition allocation requests based on execution of a corresponding plurality of query operations in conjunction with execution of a corresponding query. Processing a first partition allocation request of the plurality of partition allocation requests corresponding to execution of a first operation of the corresponding plurality of qu...