US Patent Issued to SHOPIFY on June 23 for "Merging data queries to reduce duplicate queries" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,162, issued on June 23, was assigned to SHOPIFY INC. (Ottawa).

"Merging data queries to reduce duplicate queries" was invented by Adam Petro (Toronto), Scott Walkinshaw (Bloomfield, Canada) and David Cameron (Kitchener, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During computer operation, it is sometimes necessary for the computer to retrieve data by performing a query. There may be situations in which multiple queries may need to be executed. In some embodiments, when multiple individual queries need to be executed, instead of executing each individual query to obtain data requested by each individual query, a single query may be generat...