ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,347, issued on Sept. 30.
"Sparse column-aware encodings for numeric data types" was invented by Wei Wu (Portland, Ore.), Sourabh Dongaonkar (Portland, Ore.) and Jawad B. Khan (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for sparse column-aware encodings for numeric data types, including integer data and floating-point data (float, double, etc.). The encoding schemes are tailored to take advantage of column addressable memories such as stochastic associative memories (SAM) to enable Stochastic Associative Search (SAS), which is a highly efficient and fast way of searching through a very large database of recor...