US Patent Issued to Cerner Innovation on Nov. 25 for "System and method for generating multi-category searchable ternary tree data structure" (Missouri Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,633, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cerner Innovation Inc. (Kansas City, Mo.).

"System and method for generating multi-category searchable ternary tree data structure" was invented by Jonathon William Bowyer (Kansas City, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein that generate a ternary tree data structure that includes multiple categories (e.g., terminologies) using dynamic array modifications that facilitate sharing of one or more nodes across categories. A plurality of different categories may be added and stored within a single ternary tree data structure such that e...