US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Query execution in a data analysis system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,721, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Query execution in a data analysis system" was invented by Felix Beier (Haigerloch, Germany), Reinhold Geiselhart (Rottenburg-Ergenzingen, Germany), Luis Eduardo Oliveira Lizardo (Boblingen, Germany) and Knut Stolze (Hummelshain, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method including repeatedly synchronizing a source table with a target table. The synchronizing includes receiving changes of the source table, the changes indicating delete records to be deleted and/or insert records to be inserted, replica...