US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 7 for "Space- and time-efficient enumerations" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,259, issued on July 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Space- and time-efficient enumerations" was invented by Mario Wolczko (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer instructions and computer-implemented methods are disclosed for implementing space- and time-efficient enumerations. An instance of an enumeration class may be created with a constant, plurality of enumerations. A plurality of objects corresponding to the respective enumerations may be stored in memory along with a lookup table indexed by respective ordinal values of the plurality of enumerations, the lookup ta...