ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,472, issued on March 11, was assigned to The Travelers Indemnity Co. (Hartford, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for dynamic query prediction and optimization" was invented by Denise Rogers (West Hartford, Conn.), Yulanda Henry (Hartford, Conn.), David P. Therrien (Wallingford, Conn.), Rebecca Peralta (West Hartford, Conn.), Adam J. Rychlik (Bristol, Conn.) and Bibek Mishra (Manchester, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture provide for evaluation of and prediction for data queries (e.g., SQL statements). In one example implementation, a controller device trains a data model for cla...