ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,628, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"System and method for query resource caching" was invented by Oleksiy Ignatyev (Belmont, Calif.) and Mihail Mihaylov (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Operations include determining whether to cache resources accessed by a query based on the execution time of the query. The system identifies a set of executions of a same query. The system determines a cumulative execution time for the set of executions of the same query. If the cumulative execution time exceeds a threshold value, then the system caches a resource used fo...