US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 3 for "Optimizing JSON structure" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,778, issued on March 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Optimizing JSON structure" was invented by Jin Wang (Xi'an, China), Lei Gao (Xian, China), A Peng Zhang (Xian, China) and Matthew Wayne Howard (Racine, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for optimizing the structure of JSON data are provided. Aspects include receiving first JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) data, where the first JSON data includes a plurality of data objects. Aspects also include generating, based on the first JSON data, second JSON data. The second JSON data includes one or more flattened dat...