ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,517, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Teradata US Inc. (San Diego).

"Dynamic large table filtering" was invented by Shashankesh Upadhyay (Badalalpur, India), Samrat Pandiri (Hyderabad, India) and Srinivas Rao Pabbaraju (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A relational database management system (RDBMS) executing in a computer system manages a relational database storing column values in columns of a large table and a small table in rows spread across one or more objects. The RBMS also stores metadata comprising summarized information about the column values in the rows and objects of the small table. The RDBMS processes a...