ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,771, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Sentinel Labs Israel Ltd. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Systems and methods for data management and query optimization" was invented by Steve Newman (Portola Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A central node can: receive a query comprising at least one parameter comprising a time range of a dataset stored in a cloud storage system; transmit one or more of the query parameters comprising the time range to a metadata service; receive from the metadata service a list of files related to the query; and assign to each processing node of a plurality of processing nodes a subset of the files. Each p...