US Patent Issued to SAP on Sept. 8 for "Branching for tree structure in database system" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,792, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Branching for tree structure in database system" was invented by Yong Sik Kwon (Seoul, South Korea), Kunsoo Park (Seoul, South Korea), Joong Chae Na (Seoul, South Korea), Seonho Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Bongki Moon (Seoul, South Korea) and Yehyun Nam (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, a method determines a query distinction bit (D-bit) slice for a query key using values at D-bit positions that are associated with a node in the data structure. D-bit positions are determined based on branches in the data structure. The method sele...