US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Nov. 3 for "Evaluating path expressions on binary-encoded documents" (American, Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,219, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Evaluating path expressions on binary-encoded documents" was invented by Aaron Tacke (Redwood Shores, Calif.), Altin Alickaj (Zurich), Giacomo Fabris (Redwood Shores, Calif.) and Alexander Ulrich (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to improving the performance of evaluating path expressions on hierarchical data objects represented by binary encoded documents. An abstract syntax tree (AST) representing a path expression may be generated, wherein the AST comprises one or more syntax nodes implementing...