US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on Sept. 23 for "Database system utilizing probabilistic indexing" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,296, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Database system utilizing probabilistic indexing" was invented by Greg R. Dhuse (Chicago) and Matthew Ashbeck (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system operates by: storing a plurality of variable-length data of a column of a plurality of rows; storing a plurality of fixed-length index values of a probabilistic indexing scheme for the column; and identifying a filtered subset of the plurality of rows having variable-length data of the column equal to a given value based on: identifying a first subset of rows as a proper subset of the plurality o...