ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,766, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SMARTSHIFT TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for database orientation transformation" was invented by Albrecht Gass (Fullerton, Calif.), Stefan Hetges (Mannheim, Germany), Nikolaos Faradouris (Mannheim, Germany) and Oliver Flach (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application is directed towards systems and methods for automated analysis and transformation of databases and related applications and functions from a row-oriented syntax to a column-oriented syntax. An analyzer client executed by a processor of a client device may analyze a fi...