ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,166, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Mitigation of computational graph lineage growth" was invented by Juan Andres Colmenares Diaz (Redmond, Wash.), Tushar Goyal (Redmond, Wash.), Ainur Smagulova (Redmond, Wash.), Javier Cano Vila (Redmond, Wash.) and Yuanyuan Tian (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations include a system and a computer-implemented method for breaking computational graph lineages configured for identifying at least one mutable variable of a given database table in a block of structured query language (SQL) instructions, the block c...