ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,007, issued on July 15, was assigned to ZILLIZ INC..

"Apparatus, method and storage medium for database query" was invented by Chao Xie (San Francisco), Chao Gao (Shanghai), Qianya Cheng (Shanghai) and Xiaomeng Yi (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to the field of computers, and provides an apparatus, a method, and a storage medium for database query, which are applied to a vector database, by acquiring a query request from a user, determining query parameters corresponding to each of multiple shards based on the query request using a preset neural network model, wherein the query parameters contr...