ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,009, issued on March 18, was assigned to INFORMEX INC. (Tokyo).
"Search apparatus, search method, and storage medium" was invented by Joji Saeki (Tokyo), Takuya Saeki (Tokyo) and Shinya Saeki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A search apparatus includes: an array index storage in which an array index having attribute position information for specifying a position at which an attribute value is located is stored for each of one or more records out of records and for each of one or more attributes of each record; a condition accepting unit that accepts a search condition including an attribute identifier corresponding to an attrib...