ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,326,845, issued on June 10, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Pageable hash index for document store" was invented by Christian Bensberg (Heidelberg, Germany), Daniel Ritter (Heidelberg, Germany) and Neeraj Kulkarni (Bangalore, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a computer program product for generating a pageable hash index for a document store. A hash map index for data stored on disk using a document array is generated. The hash map index includes a plurality of hash values with each hash value identifying a document stored at a predetermined location in the document array. A transaction for executi...