ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,145, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to MongoDB Inc. (New York).
"Systems and methods for column store indices" was invented by Pawel Terlecki (Miami), Mathias Benjamin Stearn (Copenhagen, Denmark), Martin Neupauer (New York), Charles William Swanson (Rochester, N.Y.) and Ian Boros (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system comprising a database having a dynamic schema and at least one processor configured to: generate at least one column store index associated with the database, at least by: extracting keys from at least one document in the database, and sorting the keys; store the at least one column store index at ...