US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Oct. 28 for "Multiple column order preserving compression" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,866, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multiple column order preserving compression" was invented by Rajat Rao (Bangalore, India) and Abinaya B (Cuddalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: performing order preserving compression of a multiple column index table of a database to provide an encoded index table sorted by an initial column, wherein the multiple column index table includes the initial column and one or more subsequent column;...