US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on Sept. 23 for "Query processing with limit optimization in a database system" (Illinois, Missouri Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,303, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Query processing with limit optimization in a database system" was invented by Samuel Peter Bove (Chicago), Jason Arnold (Chicago), Susmita Saha (Chicago), Sarah Kate Schieferstein (Chicago), Max Guthmann (Chicago), Ellis Mihalko Saupe (University City, Mo.) and Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A query processing system operates by: determining a query for execution that indicates a join expression and further indicates a threshold maximum number of output rows for the join expression; determining a query operator execution flow for the joi...