ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,412, issued on July 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Runtime statistics feedback for query plan cost estimation" was invented by Jaehyok Chong (Seoul, South Korea), Young Goo Cho (Seoul, South Korea) and Ki Hong Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method can execute a first query plan for a query, obtain statistics for internal nodes of a first query tree representing the first query plan, receive a second query tree representing a second query plan for the query, search for a matching internal node of the first query tree for a selected internal node of the second query tree, a...