ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,912, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Speedment AB (Stora Hoga, Sweden).

"Method and apparatus for mapping Java Streams to JPA commands" was invented by Per Ake Minborg (Stora Hoga, Sweden) and Mislav Milicevic (Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a computer implemented method for efficient access to a database via a functional model-based procedure by translating a sequence of operations that are stored in a memory and that is described in the procedure that is specified using a generalized programming language into an intermediate database abstraction layer access language, whereby...