ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,479, issued on March 11, was assigned to Tilo Tech GmbH (Berlin).

"Database system, database structure, and associated methods" was invented by Stefan Berkner (Blankenfelde-Mahlow, Germany) and Hendrik Nehnes (Hoppegarten, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database structure includes at least one of a distributed data storage structure configured to store a plurality of different entity entries, each entity entry being configured to store datasets. The datasets comprise data and a dataset identifier, each entity entry further being configured to store a header comprising matching edges. Each matching edge comprises a matching...