ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,689, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Hybrid in-memory/pageable spatial column data" was invented by Colin Florendo (Marlborough, Mass.), Surendra Vishnoi (Jodhpur, India), Janardhan Hungund (Pune, India) and Manuel Caroli (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for maintaining of a geometric object in a database. An embodiment operates by a database maintaining a first page storing a data block in the database's on-disk store such that the data block stores at least one byte of the geometric object. After receiving th...