US Patent Issued to Hasso-Plattner-Institut Fur Digital Engineering gGmbH on Jan. 20 for "Training an agent for iterative multi-attribute index selection" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,336, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Hasso-Plattner-Institut Fur Digital Engineering gGmbH (Potsdam, Germany).

"Training an agent for iterative multi-attribute index selection" was invented by Jan Kossmann (Berlin), Rainer Schlosser (Berlin), Alexander Kastius (Potsdam, Germany), Michael Perscheid (Potsdam, Germany) and Hasso Plattner (Schriesheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to a method for training an index selection agent for iteratively determining an index set I to be used when running queries against a database, the method being implemented in a computer system. Preferably, the index selection a...