US Patent Issued to MongoDB on July 29 for "Aggregation framework system architecture and method" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,456, issued on July 29, was assigned to MongoDB Inc. (New York).

"Aggregation framework system architecture and method" was invented by Eliot Horowitz (New York), David Lenox Storch (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Charles William Swanson (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and computer implemented method for execution of aggregation expressions on a distributed non-relational database system is provided. According to one aspect, an aggregation operation may be provided that permits more complex operations using separate collections. For instance, it may be desirable to create a report from one collection using information grouped ...