ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,993, issued on March 25, was assigned to ALTR Solutions Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Fragmenting data for the purposes of persistent storage across multiple immutable data structures" was invented by Christopher Edward Struttmann (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a process including: receiving one or more write requests to write a plurality of values to a plurality of fields in one or more tuples of a relational database, different ones of the values corresponding to different ones of the fields, detecting duplicates of the values with steps for expediting detection of duplicates, and selecting a first subset of th...