ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,381, issued on April 8, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Query execution via communication with an object storage system via an object storage communication protocol" was invented by S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), George Kondiles (Chicago), Jason Arnold (Chicago), Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago) and Joseph Jablonski (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system is operable to determining a query for execution and generate a query operator execution flow for the query that includes a first at least one operator serially before a second at least one operator. The first at least one operator of the query ope...