US Patent Issued to Veeva Systems on May 5 for "Systems and methods for generating and executing a query on a column-oriented database" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,611, issued on May 5, was assigned to Veeva Systems Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for generating and executing a query on a column-oriented database" was invented by Peter Gassner (Pleasanton, Calif.), Tristram Arthur Liddiard (Innisfil, Canada), Peter Alexander Murray (Toronto) and Colin Sham (Mississuaga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating and populating a digital file includes modifying case data to restructure the case data from a first data structure to a column-oriented data structure such that each case data record is maintained in the modified case data. The method further includes r...