US Patent Issued to AtScale on May 26 for "Preferred storage of aggregate data items" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,310, issued on May 26, was assigned to AtScale Inc. (Boston).

"Preferred storage of aggregate data items" was invented by Daryl Odnert (Los Altos, Calif.), Patrick J. Toole (Wellington, Fla.), Sarah Gerweck (San Mateo, Calif.), Joseph Barefoot (San Fransico, Calif.) and Rouzbeh Safaie (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A preferred aggregate store for a multidimensional database receives and stores intermediate data generated as part of a larger query for avoiding repetitive or redundant data retrievals incurring costly data paths. Aggregates include intermediate tables and sets of data, often generated from a join of two or...