ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,784, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Teradata US Inc. (San Diego).
"Query expression repository" was invented by Grace Kwan-On Au (Rancho Palos Verdes, Calif.), Nobul Reddy Goli (Hyderabad, India), Vivek Kumar (Jharkhand, India), Ming Zhang (Rolling Hills Estates, Calif.), Bin Cao (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Sanjay Nair (El Segundo, Calif.), Kanaka Durga Rajanala (El Segundo, Calif.), Sanjib Mishra (Hyderabad, India), Naveen Jaiswal (Hyderabad, India), Lu Ma (Tenafly, N.J.) and Xiaorong Luo (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus, method and computer program product for query optimization in a Relational Database...