US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Building cross table index in relational database" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,913, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Building cross table index in relational database" was invented by Hong Mei Zhang (Beijing), Shuo Li (Beijing), Xiaobo Wang (Beijing) and Sheng Yan Sun (BeiJing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method to generate and utilize a hybrid index. The method includes receiving a first query, where the first query is configured to perform a first command. The method further includes generating a hybrid index, where the hybrid index defines a connection between a first table and a second table of a set of tables. The method also i...