US Patent Issued to NBCUniversal Media on June 23 for "Ordinals for enabling localized edits of data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,144, issued on June 23, was assigned to NBCUniversal Media LLC (New York).

"Ordinals for enabling localized edits of data" was invented by Ben H. Kwa (La Crescenta, Calif.) and Chi-wei Tseng (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An improved system and an improved method are provided for organizing and managing a dataset using an ordinal system based on an optimized indexing tree, such as a Stern-Brocot tree. The ordinal system employs unique fractional numbers in the Stern-Brocot tree as indices, which are assigned to data entries of the dataset to locate and access these data entries quickly. Thus, the present disclosure provide...