US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Query optimizer system for heterogenous database computing" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,355, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Query optimizer system for heterogenous database computing" was invented by Sowmya Kameswaran (San Jose, Calif.), Xu Qin Zhao (Beijing) and Ye Tao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for processing database queries includes receiving a query at a query optimizer. A suitability of a plurality of specialized processors for executing the query in a first parallel process is determined, and a suitability of a plurality of specialized database management systems (DBMS) for processing the query in a second para...