ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,003, issued on March 24, was assigned to Beijing Baidu Netcom Science Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Method and apparatus for generating operator" was invented by Feng Xing (Beijing), Xiang Lan (Beijing), Liling Niu (Beijing), Xiandong Liu (Beijing), Yanjun Ma (Beijing), Dianhai Yu (Beijing) and Haifeng Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for generating an operator are provided. The method includes: constructing a group of basic application programming interfaces for providing one of the following basic functions: an access function, a storage function, and a computing function; constructing a kernel...