ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,138, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Compiled query execution and debugging" was invented by Konrad Jankowski (Ennis, Ireland) and Andrea Olgiati (Gilroy, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system may comprise a master computing node and a servant computing node. The master may compile a query to form a first version of a program that performs the query on the servant. The first version of the program may be compiled using a compiler configuration that excludes instrumentation, in order to reduce latency associated with the initial processing of the query. A second version of t...