US Patent Issued to SAP on June 17 for "Shared subplan pipelining inference" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,890, issued on June 17, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Shared subplan pipelining inference" was invented by Manuel Mayr (Walldorf, Germany), Paul Willems (Heidelberg, Germany) and Till Merker (Sandhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database management system (DBMS) traverses an operator topology of a query plan to identify pipelines within the query plan. The query plan may include at least a first shared subplan reference, where the first shared subplan reference refers to a first shared subplan, and where the first shared subplan is associated with a shared node in the operator topology. Also, the DBMS a...