ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,690, issued on June 2, was assigned to Business Mobile AG (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland).

"Distributing tabular data from a relational database over the internet to a remote subscriber computer" was invented by Thomas Failer (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland), Joerg Klotzbuecher (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland), Maximilian Ralph Peter von Liechtenstein (Douglas, Isle of Man) and Florian Kunz (Kreuzlingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods are described herein related to extracting tabular data from a transmission server to a remote subscriber computer in a setting wherein the tabular data can only be transferred in a textual representa...