US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on May 5 for "Hardware implemented data layer for processing compressed columnar data" (Texas, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,586, issued on May 5, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Hardware implemented data layer for processing compressed columnar data" was invented by Runbin Shi (Austin, Texas), Conor John Cunningham (Austin, Texas) and Blake Douglas Pelton (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated circuit and method are disclosed for processing of compressed columnar data. The processing of compressed columnar data includes loading compressed columnar data associated with a first and a second column into a first on-chip buffer, performing time-shared processing of the compressed columnar data from the ...