US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 20 for "Cloud-based data management for data files" (Colorado, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,754, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Cloud-based data management for data files" was invented by Marquis G. Waller (Beverly, Ohio), Jeffrey Alan Sikkink (Longmont, Colo.), Ryszard Ligas (Boulder, Colo.) and Amber Joy Watkins (Longmont, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System, method, and software of implementing a data management service on a cloud computing platform. In an embodiment, a system extracts a data file in a row-based file format from a cloud-based storage resource, extracts a schema associated with the data file from the cloud-based storage resource, transforms the data file in the row-bas...