ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,885, issued on June 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for query validation and query processing" was invented by Pavel BZoch (Prague).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a text input string defining components of a select query in a first representation and parsing the text input string to identify a set of key-value pairs that define portions of a where clause. The method also includes identifying an operator for the first key-value pair, determining a data type of the first operand value, comparing the operator with a predefined s...