ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,432, issued on July 29, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).
"Unnesting of JSON arrays" was invented by Stefano Belloni (Mannheim, Germany), Christian Bensberg (Heidelberg, Germany) and Daniel Ritter (Heidelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include receiving a query including at least one unnest operation to unnest a plurality of elements from one or more JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) arrays. The at least one unnest operation may unnest the plurality of elements by generating a table in which each row of the table is populated by one of the plurality of elements. An execution plan may be generated t...