US Patent Issued to Databricks on Feb. 18 for "Clustering key selection based on machine-learned key selection models for data processing service" (California, Washington, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,169, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Clustering key selection based on machine-learned key selection models for data processing service" was invented by Terry Kim (Belleview, Wash.), Lin Ma (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Rahul Shivu Mahadev (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Rahul Potharaju (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosed configurations provide a method (and/or a computer-readable medium or system) for determining, from a table schema describing keys of a data table, one or more clustering keys that can be used to cluster data files of a data table. The method includes generating featu...