ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,119, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Multiple index scans" was invented by Colm McHugh (Dublin), Rama K. Korlapati (El Segundo, Calif.) and Yi Xia (Los Angeles).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to implementing multiple index scans. A computer system may store a database table comprising fields and indexes corresponding to those fields. The computer system may receive a request to access records based on a Boolean expression that affects a selection of records from the database table and that comprises clauses, at least two of which are joined by an AND operation. The...