ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,123, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"System and method for performing query operations on run length encoded data" was invented by Rathijit Sen (Redmond, Wash.), Zezhou Huang (New York), Matteo Interlandi (Torrance, Calif.), Marius Dumitru (Sammamish, Wash.), Krystian Sakowski (Washington), Carlo Aldo Curino (Woodinville, Wash.) and Hans C. Lehnert Merino (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing query operations on run length encoding (RLE), data in a parallel processing computing system. Data for que...