ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,174, issued on June 23, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Data persistence formats management for column loadable columns" was invented by Ishita Gupta (Bangalore, India), Janardhan Hungund (Pune, India), Amit Saonerker (Pune, India), Jagadeesha Kanihal (Bengaluru, India), Amit Pathak (Pune, India), Sebastian Seifert (Heidelberg, Germany), Bernhard Scheirle (Leimen, Germany) and Neha Shikha Kachhap (Ranchi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing data persistence formats in a computing system, comprising, at least one data processor; and at least one memory result in operations comprising: computing an e...