ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,392, issued on July 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Storing a table in a database system" was invented by Felix Beier (Haigerloch, Germany), Knut Stolze (Hummelshain, Germany), Reinhold Geiselhart (Rottenburg-Ergenzingen, Germany) and Luis Eduardo Oliveira Lizardo (Boblingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a method for storing a table in a database system. The table comprises a first set of one or more columns of first data type and a second set of one or more columns of second data type. The method comprises: storing the first set of columns and a set...