US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 24 for "Conditional branching for a federated graph query plan" (Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,649, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Conditional branching for a federated graph query plan" was invented by Anders Tungeland Gjerdrum (Tromso, Norway) and Johannes Cornelis Draaijer (Tromso, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example solutions for optimizing an initial query execution plan for a federated database includes identifying a group of operations in the initial query execution plan that conform to a recognized pattern including fetching data from a data store. Based on detection of the pattern and of the presence of a condition, an optimized query execution plan...