US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on Oct. 14 for "End user configuration of cost rules in a database system with query costs based on power and methods for use therewith" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,600, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"End user configuration of cost rules in a database system with query costs based on power and methods for use therewith" was invented by S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), Andrew D. Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.), George Kondiles (Chicago) and Jason Arnold (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system operates by: receiving a query request from a requesting entity; determining the maximum query cost ruleset for the requesting entity by identifying one of the plurality of maximum query cost rulesets that corresponds to one of the corresponding plurality o...