ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,879, issued on June 17, was assigned to Caret Holdings Inc. (Columbus, Ohio).
"Object-based search processing" was invented by Michael A. Panetta (Grandview Heights, Ohio), James Wilbert Devine (Columbus, Ohio) and Daniel Craig Manges (Powell, Ohio).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structured data comprising primary data is transformed into object-based data comprising the primary data and at least one search function. The object-based data when loaded into memory provides the search function as executable instructions for an object instance. When an application calls the object instance with search terms as input, the search terms are ...