ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,110, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).
"Query execution in a database system utilizing segment handles" was invented by George Kondiles (Highland Park, Ill.), Andrew Michael Bass (Carmel, Ind.), Finley Jordan Lau (Chicago), Natalia Marie Jenuwine (Chicago), Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago), Hassan Farahani (Evanston, Ill.) and Gregory A. Papadopoulos (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system operates by: determining a set of assigned segments based on data ownership information; generating a plurality of segment handles and a corresponding plurality of segment metadata for the set of assigned se...