US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on Nov. 11 for "Query execution in database systems based on disjunction probability" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,706, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Query execution in database systems based on disjunction probability" was invented by Samuel Peter Bove (Chicago), Ellis Mihalko Saupe (University City, Mo.), George Kondiles (Chicago), Ryan Joseph Kluzinski (Vancouver, Canada), Susmita Saha (Chicago) and Sarah Kate Schieferstein (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system operates by: determining a query for execution against a dataset that indicates a filtering predicate denoting a disjunction between a first range-based predicate and a second range-based predicate; accessing distribution data for...