US Patent Issued to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE on Aug. 19 for "Data storage device, data storage method, and data storage program" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,549, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE Corp. (Tokyo).

"Data storage device, data storage method, and data storage program" was invented by Kazuhiro Miyahara (Tokyo), Tatsuro Kimura (Tokyo) and Kimihiro Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device (10) divides an LAS data file into a plurality of continuous byte ranges by using information obtained by plotting a series of values of LAS data indicated by the LAS data file on a plane with a latitude and longitude as axes, and determines coordinates serving as search keys for the byte range divisions. Here, when dividing the LAS dat...