US Patent Issued to Google on June 30 for "Unified statistics collection framework using a process-based top-down approach for Postgres-based database systems" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,162, issued on June 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unified statistics collection framework using a process-based top-down approach for Postgres-based database systems" was invented by Suzhen Lin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a statistics collection framework includes receiving a schema defining a relational database for storing a plurality of statistics corresponding to a query, the relational database including a plurality of data tables relationally connected according to the schema, each data table of the plurality of data tables corresponding to a respective statistic. Th...