ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,509, issued on July 7, was assigned to Adobe Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"B-tree based storage engine for storing hierarchical structures" was invented by Erhan Bagdemir (Tornesch, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments may provide techniques for performing database operations using a hierarchy-enhanced B-tree index. A computer-implemented method can include executing a query to access a data item by traversing a root node of a hierarchy-enhanced B-tree index to a particular leaf node connected to the root node. In some instances, the particular leaf node indicates a first unstructured-data record. The method can al...