US Patent Issued to Oracle International on June 2 for "Performing in-memory columnar analytic queries on externally resident data" (Pennsylvania, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,657, issued on June 2, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Performing in-memory columnar analytic queries on externally resident data" was invented by Roger Dermot MacNicol (Stevens, Pa.), Xia Hua (Mountain View, Calif.), Allison Holloway (San Carlos, Calif.), Shasank Kisan Chavan (Menlo Park, Calif.), Jesse Kamp (Castro Valley, Calif.), Maria Colgan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Tirthankar Lahiri (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques herein use in-memory column vectors to process data that is external to a database management system (DBMS) and logically join the external data with d...