US Patent Issued to Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Dec. 23 for "Optimized data structure, and method of generating same, for efficient storage of data in, and retrieval from, a computer memory" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,910, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Optimized data structure, and method of generating same, for efficient storage of data in, and retrieval from, a computer memory" was invented by Ajay Sunderajan Madhavan (Aurora, Ill.), Jayanth Pridhvi Raj Recherla (Elgin, Ill.) and Balaji Rengachari (Aurora, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for generating a compact in memory key-value data structure/database which may or may not be hierarchical, i.e., include nested key-value data structures, which can be utilized for other applications. Th...