US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 3 for "Global query optimization" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,760, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Global query optimization" was invented by Alexandar Mihaylov (Ottawa), Vincent Corvinelli (Mississauga, Canada), Calisto Zuzarte (Pickering, Canada), Mohammed Fahd Alhamid (Stouffville, Canada), Brandon Lewis Frendo (Markham, Canada) and Ian Richard Finlay (Uxbridge, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for global query optimization. In one embodiment, the techniques involve receiving an input query, generating query candidates based on the input query, determining ratings of the query candidates, selecting a prima...