US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 29 for "Minimizing hash collisions of composite keys" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,829, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Minimizing hash collisions of composite keys" was invented by Bharat Sukhwani (Sudbury, Mass.), Sameh Asaad (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.) and Mohit Kapur (Westchester, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for minimizing hash collisions of composite keys. Each component ("key component") of the composite key is converted into a linear index that uniquely represents that key component. Such a one-to-one mapping reduces the length (i.e., range of values the key component represents) ...