ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,381, issued on April 21, was assigned to Shopify Inc. (Ottawa).

"System and method for executing computational queries" was invented by Philip John Messenger (East Sussex, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system and computer-implemented method are provided for executing computational queries. The method includes executing a query comprising at least one predicate, each predicate determining whether each of a plurality of entities is a member of a corresponding set for that predicate. The method also includes storing a bitset indicating set membership for the entities at each node in a graph representative of t...