ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,355, issued on July 1, was assigned to Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Materialized column creation method and data query method based on data lake" was invented by Jun Guo (Beijing), Youjun Zhang (Beijing), Yi Xu (Beijing) and Xuan Luo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present application are a method of creating a materialized column based on a data lake and a method of querying data based on a data lake. In these methods, at least one materialized column can be created for a data table first, such that these materialized columns are used for storing data related to common columns in the...