ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,301, issued on July 1, was assigned to Cortex Innovations Gmbh (Kyffhauserland OT Bendeleben, Germany).
"List-based data search comprising an append-only data structure" was invented by Peter Palm (Isernhagen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for performing a database query within a database, that contains logical data records which are physically stored in the form of field-specific data value lists, includes receiving instructions to change data values; storing the instructions in an append-only data structure without making the changes to the field-specific data value lists, wherein each entry in...