US Patent Issued to SAP on Sept. 2 for "Custom replacement of functions with inverse functions for improved query performance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,951, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Custom replacement of functions with inverse functions for improved query performance" was invented by Heiko Gerwens (Heidelberg, Germany) and Johannes Merx (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and solutions are provided for improving query performance using inverse functions. Often a function is used to perform operations such as data type conversions. The use of these functions can be resource intensive, such as if a conversion needs to be performed for all rows of a particular relational database table. The present disclosure allows for ...