ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,328, issued on July 1, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Creating compressed data slabs that each include compressed data and compression information for storage in a database system" was invented by George Kondiles (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing entity is operable to a data set for storage that includes a plurality of uncompressed data slabs. A storage data set that includes a plurality of compressed data slabs is created based on the data set, and the storage data set is stored via a plurality of computing devices. Each compressed data slab of the plurality of compressed data slabs is generated fro...