US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance on June 3 for "Converting hierarchical data into relational data" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,362, issued on June 3, was assigned to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. (Springfield, Mass.).

"Converting hierarchical data into relational data" was invented by Michael Roche (Springfield, Mass.), Andrew Sheridan (Springfield, Mass.), Ellie Nerney (Springfield, Mass.) and Daniel Oldham (Springfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein are related to systems and methods for converting hierarchical data into relational data. In one aspect, a system obtains a data object of the set of data objects in the hierarchical data. For the data object, the system can determine an anchor path and an object pat...