US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on April 8 for "Generating metadata from a scan of a data object in an object store for performing subsequent queries to the data object" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,376, issued on April 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Generating metadata from a scan of a data object in an object store for performing subsequent queries to the data object" was invented by Ning Liao (Sammamish, Wash.), Fusheng Yuan (Kenmore, Wash.) and Kaiwen Qu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object data store may generate metadata responsive to a request that causes a scan of a data object for subsequent use in performing queries to the data object. A request may be received that causes a scan operation of the data object. As part of performing the scan one or multiple types of metadata describi...