ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,163, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient storage and query of schemaless data" was invented by Luis Alonso (Mountain View, Calif.), Vladislav Grachev (Bothell, Wash.), Hossein Ahmadi (Seattle), Srinagesh Susarla (Saratoga, Calif.), Francis Lan (San Francisco), Srinidhi Raghavan (Mountain View, Calif.), Vinay Balasubramaniam (Sammamish, Wash.) and Oleksandr Blyzniuchenko (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing semi-structured data includes receiving user data from a user of a query system where the user data includes semi-structured user data. The method also inclu...