US Patent Issued to Palo Alto Networks on July 29 for "Heuristic database querying with dynamic partitioning" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,434, issued on July 29, was assigned to Palo Alto Networks Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Heuristic database querying with dynamic partitioning" was invented by Chandra Biksheswaran Mouleeswaran (Cupertino, Calif.), Amit Agarwal (Cupertino, Calif.), Prashant Kumar Pathak (San Jose, Calif.) and Xiaoyan Wang (Pleasanton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dynamic partitioning of a search space of queries is implemented for flexible, heuristic database querying. Search space partitioning refers to dividing the search space for a submitted query into smaller parts by augmenting the queries to append thereto an additional predicate compr...