ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,743, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Kyndryl Inc. (New York).

"Optimal technique for building indexes on databases" was invented by Sriram Lakshminarasimhan (Chennai, India), Gonella Vamsi Charan (Bangalore, India) and Marci Formato (Clintondale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments relate to an optimal technique for building indexes on databases. Aspects include receiving a request to build a new index for a column in a table, determining that an existing index includes the column requested in the request, and extracting the record identifiers associated with the column from the existing index. Aspects include buildi...