ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,696, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Using self-maintaining structure information for faster data access" was invented by Christian Bensberg (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a system, and a computer program product for accessing data. A schema representing a structure of an object in a plurality of objects stored in a storage location is generated. Each object includes one or more data elements. Each schema identifies one or more data elements of the object, an offset location of each data element of the object, and a value of each data element of the object. A query requesti...