US Patent Issued to Bank of America on Aug. 11 for "Systems and methods for shard-based data indexing and retrieval in multi-key environments" (Illinois, Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,254, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for shard-based data indexing and retrieval in multi-key environments" was invented by Burton M. Covnot (Carol Stream, Ill.), Troy LaPorte (Saint Charles, Ill.), Matthias Von Rueden (Northbrook, Ill.) and Bryan J. Smith (Knoxville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for shard-based data indexing and retrieval in multi-key environments. The present disclosure is configured to streamline data management by utilizing a shard directory to assign unique shard key hashe...