ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,113, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Processing formatted record data with fixed and variable lengths" was invented by George Kondiles (Chicago), Jacob Walker Trueb (Chicago) and Philip Joseph Dakin (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A record processing and storage system operates by: receiving formatted row data that includes a fixed-length batch section and a temporary variable-length batch section; storing, in a compressed data format, at least one variable-length data value of each of a plurality of temporary variable-length row sections of each of the plurality of formatted row data; generat...