ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,670, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System and method for query acceleration for use with data analytics environments" was invented by Ashish Mittal (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Kenneth Eng (Redwood City, Calif.), Alextair Mascarenhas (Foster City, Calif.), David Wong (Redwood City, Calif.), Praful Hebbar (Bangalore, India), Yi Ge (San Mateo, Calif.), Mahadevan Rajagopalan (Pleasanton, Calif.), Roger Bolsius (Round Rock, Texas), Vijayakumar Ranganathan (Woodside, Calif.) and Samar Lotia (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment, described ...