US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Oct. 21 for "Scalable, transportable, and self-contained binary storage format for extensible markup language" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,288, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Scalable, transportable, and self-contained binary storage format for extensible markup language" was invented by Harichandan Roy (Amarillo, Texas), To-Ju Huang (Redwood City, Calif.), Jose Omar Alvizo Flores (Foster City, Calif.), Zhen Hua Liu (San Mateo, Calif.), Francisco Alonso Alavez Sosa (Zapopan, Mexico), Qin Yu (Belmont, Calif.) and Madhupriya Ravishankar (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A structured document storage format is provided in which tokens used for encoding and decoding are contained within the encoded do...