US Patent Issued to SAP on July 15 for "Distributed query plan generation" (Chinese, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,998, issued on July 15, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Distributed query plan generation" was invented by Faming Qu (Xi'an, China), Paul Willems (Heidelberg, Germany), Yuncong Qiao (Xi'an, China) and Zhen Tian (Xian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a computer program product for generating an executable query plan. A query requiring access to data stored in a database system is received. Based on the received query, a query execution plan having a plurality of query execution pipelines is generated. Each query execution pipeline in the plurality of query execution pipelines is configured to ...