ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,209, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Morgan Stanley Services Group Inc. (New York).

"Distributed query execution and aggregation across multiple datasets" was invented by Luke A. Higgins (Silver Spring, Md.) and Robert R. Bruno (Palm Harbor, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods and systems are disclosed for receiving and indexing a plurality of files for later querying, for dynamically generating scripts to be executed during a query of a data store, and for horizontally distributing a query and aggregating results of the distributed query."

The patent was filed on March 8, 2024, under Application No. ...