BAE Systems Assigned Patent

BAE Systems PLC, London, Great Britain, has been assigned a patent (11,119,991) developed by Apps, Stephen David, and Hobley, Roger Leonard, Portsmouth, Great Britain, for a “system for data storage and retrieval.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A data storage and retrieval system for a computer memory for maintaining a database for product life cycle support (PLCS database). A computer system receives data exchange packets comprising data fields and populated with data according to different respective database schema and selects optimal data from amongst the packets. A master data exchange packet is formed comprising common field headers and the optimal data in data fields of the master data exchange packet. The system maps the common field headers to corresponding field headers of the PLCS database schema, and loads the optimal data of the master data exchange packet into the PLCS database according to the mapped PLCS field headers.”

The patent application was filed on May 11, 2018 (16/612,026).