ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,166, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Hardware acceleration of relational operations" was invented by Wei Cui (Vancouver, Canada), Rathijit Sen (Redmond, Wash.), Peng Cheng (Redmond, Wash.) and Matteo Interlandi (Torrance, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes an implementation of a computing system that utilizes accelerator hardware configured to perform parallel computation of matching pairs of a join operation of a database program. This computation is performed at least in part by, for each thread that determines a matching pair, computing an offset...