ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,787, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).
"Optimizing database join operations using quantum annealing, swarm intelligence, and genetic algorithms" was invented by Jemlin Lucas (Coppell, Texas), Suryanarayana Adivi (Hyderabad, India) and Pushkar Taneja (Hyderabad, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing database join operations in large-scale relational databases using an integrated framework of quantum annealing, swarm intelligence, and genetic algorithms. The system employs quantum annealing to learn data distribution patterns, normalizing and tran...