ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,833, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Incremental execution of extract, transform, load process using microtechniques architecture" was invented by Michael Paul Armbrust (Berkeley, Calif.), Vuk Ercegovac (Campbell, Calif.), Paul Lappas (Seattle), Xi Liang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mukul Murthy (Berkeley, Calif.), Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, Calif.), Nitin Sharma (Sammamish, Wash.), John Sismanis (Campbell, Calif.), Joseph Torres (San Francisco) and Min Yang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives ETL specification for processing stream data, including a transform...