ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,973, issued on July 15, was assigned to NETFLIX INC. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Real-time indexing of in-memory datasets based on structured queries" was invented by Jonathon Peter Leibundguth (Washington), John Andrew Koszewnik (Morgan Hill, Calif.) and Francisco Javier Sanchez Norman (Aguascalientes, Mexico).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a computer-implemented method comprises receiving a structured query for an in-memory dataset, identifying, based on the structured query, a plurality of tables included in the in-memory dataset, generating, for each table in the plurality of tables, a first index of records in t...