US Patent Issued to Databricks on July 8 for "Efficient merge of tabular data using a processing filter" (Dutch, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,843, issued on July 8, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Efficient merge of tabular data using a processing filter" 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, second and a third jobs, and obtaining a resulting table based at least in part on the second job resulting file(s)...