ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,860, issued on June 10, was assigned to Speedata Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Pipelined hardware-implemented database query processing" was invented by Rafi Shalom (Petah Tikva, Israel) and Kobby Carmona (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for applying database commands to one or more database tables includes a memory and a hardware-implemented pipeline. The hardware-implemented pipeline includes one or more table-processing circuits, and is configured to receive a stream of input records drawn from the one or more database tables, to parse first records, from among the input records, into a key and one or mor...