US Patent Issued to SAP on Sept. 23 for "Efficient character counting for variable length encoding formats" (South Korean, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,425,046, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Efficient character counting for variable length encoding formats" was invented by Marco Patrick Schroeder (Munich), Suyeon Maeng (Seoul, South Korea), Sooyoung Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyungwook Ko (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies and solutions are also provided for determining a number of characters in encoded data, particularly for encoding formats that have variable byte lengths. Bytes in the encoding format can have different types, including at least one type that represents a continuation byte. That is, rather than having ...