ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,791, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Bedrock Labs Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Discovery of data sets" was invented by Ganesha Shanmuganathan (San Jose, Calif.), Pranava Adduri (San Francisco) and Devesh Yamparala (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data set discovery is disclosed, including: identifying first file metadata elements for a first file associated with a node in a hierarchy of data; identifying second file metadata elements for a second file associated with the node; identifying common file metadata elements among the first file metadata elements and the second file metadata elements; and determining that ...