ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,312, issued on May 26, was assigned to Fulcrum Technologies Inc. (New York).
"Retrieving a portion of a database cell" was invented by Marko Bakovic (London) and Nicholas James Gates (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various embodiments, a process for retrieving a portion of a database cell includes receiving a query relevant to a portion of a large data cell of a database and appending information from a metadata cell indicating the portion of the large data cell relevant to the query. The process includes retrieving the portion of the large data cell based on information in the metadata cell."
The patent was filed on Aug. 2...