US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on July 8 for "Handling null values in processing join operations during query execution" (Illinois, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,418, issued on July 8, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Handling null values in processing join operations during query execution" was invented by Samuel Peter Bove (Chicago), Ellis Mihalko Saupe (University City, Mo.), Jason Arnold (Chicago) and Andrew Park (St. Charles, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system is operable to determine a query that includes a join expression for execution. A set of input rows are dispersed for processing via a plurality of parallelized join processes in conjunction with executing the join expression based on identifying a first proper subset of the set of input rows based ...