ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,939, issued on May 13, was assigned to Speedata Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).
"Hardware-implemented file reader" was invented by Dani Voitsechov (Atlit, Israel), Yoav Etsion (Atlit, Israel) and Rafi Shalom (Petah-Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hardware-implemented file reader includes an interface, multiple hardware-implemented column readers and a hardware-implemented record reconstructor. The interface is configured to access a file including multiple records. The records store values in accordance with a nested structure that supports optional values and repeated values. The file is stored in a columnar format having multi...