US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on Sept. 2 for "Processing instructions to invalidate cached resultant data in a database system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,896, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Processing instructions to invalidate cached resultant data in a database system" was invented by David Charles Boutcher (Newcastle upon Tyne, Great Britain) and Rob Bestgen (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system is operable to cache first resultant data generated via executing a first query in cache memory resources during a first temporal period. An instruction to re-execute the first query is processed during the first temporal period by accessing the first resultant data in the cache memory resources. A cached resultant invalidatio...