ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,805, issued on July 1, was assigned to BlackBerry Corp. (Wilmington, Del.).
"Methods for converting hierarchical data" was invented by Yaroslav Oliinyk (Portland, Ore.), David Neill Beveridge (Portland, Ore.), David Michael Liebson (Portland, Ore.), Lichun Lily Jia (Austin, Texas) and Eric Glen Petersen (Beaverton, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and software can be used for securing in-tunnel messages. One example of a method includes obtaining a parsed file that comprises two or more sub-feature trees, and each of the two or more sub-feature trees comprise at least one feature layer that comprises features. The...