ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,729, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Efficient user-defined function execution and artificial intelligence model invocation" was invented by Ramakumar V. Kosuru (Austin, Texas), Ronald Tischler (San Jose, Calif.) and Adam Romayor (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Efficient implementation of user defined functions (UDFs) is provided herein. Specifically, a database management system (DBMS) compiler may receive a UDF and a query that includes a relational operator and an indication of the UDF that is associated with the relational operator. The compiler may a...