US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on Sept. 16 for "Generating query cost data based on power and at least one query function of a query request" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,226, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Generating query cost data based on power and at least one query function of a query request" 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: determining a query pricing scheme; receiving a query request from a requesting entity that indicates at least one query function for execution against a database system; determining a power consumption value based on the at least one query function; generating query c...