ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,330, issued on July 1, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).
"Efficient merge of tabular data using mixing" was invented by Bart Samwel (Oegstgeest, Netherlands), Tathagata Das (New Haven, Conn.), Lars Kroll (Almere, Netherlands), Yijia Cui (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Juliusz Sompolski (Amsterdam) and Tom Van Bussel (Amsterdam).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer system for performing an operation with respect to a target table are disclosed. The method includes performing first and second jobs, and obtaining other resulting files based at least in part on a second set of unmatched rows among the target ta...