ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,360, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Storage of small tables as pseudo tables" was invented by Hans-Jurgen Zeltwanger (Weinsberg, Germany), Dirk Nakott (Stuttgart, Germany), Jens Peter Seifert (Gaertringen, Germany), Holger Hellmuth (Bensheim, Germany), Jorn Klauke (Petersberg, Germany), Martin Jungfer (Ostelsheim, Germany), Thomas Rech (Rittersheim, Germany) and Alexander Zietlow (Sandhausen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In several aspects for storing a table, in which the table is configured for comprising records having values of one or more attributes, a proces...