ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,497, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Native copy mechanism for in-memory and paged primitive data structures" was invented by Anish Maniyar (Pune, India), Santhosh T Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Guo Gang Ye (Shanghai), Amit Pathak (Pune, India), Sebastian Seifert (Heidelberg, Germany) and Souvik Pal (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system detects a query targeting a first database object stored in a unified persistence format in a persistence store. In response to detecting the query, the database system determines whether to load the first database object in column-loadable for...