ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,584, issued on May 5, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automatic prediction of and avoidance of statement pool churn" was invented by Nathan Jon Rauh (Rochester, Minn.), Mark Swatosh (Rochester, Minn.), James Stephens (Palisade, Minn.) and Alex Seitzinger Motley (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method, system, and program product are provided. In response to receiving a request for a structured query language (SQL) statement from a requestor, a current request count is incremented. A matching entry in a discards list is located, whereby the match comprises, a ...