ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,126, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Teradata US Inc. (San Diego).
"Departmental allocation of query processing" was invented by Michael G. Coutts (San Diego), Douglas P. Brown (Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.) and David Doyle Gilbreath (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system analyzes a query to determine the resources required to execute the query by identifying the department that issued the query (the "source department") and identifying query-recited tables and determining the department by which each of the query-recited tables is controlled (the "accessed departments"). The database system determines that...