ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,182, issued on March 18, was assigned to Rakuten Symphony Inc. (Tokyo).
"Storage and access of array objects" was invented by Ravi Kumar Alluboyina (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A payload object, such as a JSON object, includes a plurality of elements is converted to an array file by individually serializing the elements. A header is written to the array file that includes the number of elements and an offset to the start of each element of the serialized elements. The serialized elements are written after the header. Thereafter, an individual serialized elements is read by first reading the offset correspondin...