US Patent Issued to Neo4j Sweden on March 31 for "Query engine for graph databases and heterogeneous hardware" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,574, issued on March 31, was assigned to Neo4j Sweden AB (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Query engine for graph databases and heterogeneous hardware" was invented by James Clarkson (Tewkesbury, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Database query processing techniques are disclosed. In various embodiments, a query associated with a database is received. A byte code representation of the query is generated, including by decomposing the query into a discrete set of streaming operators defined over associated data frames, wherein the byte code includes code defining for each operator in the discrete set of streaming operators the processi...