ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,875, issued on June 17, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).
"Nested array batch processing" was invented by Shoumik Palkar (Mountain View, Calif.), Alexander Behm (Lafayette, Calif.) and David Cashman (Toronto).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for processing data. The method includes obtaining a query plan for processing input data in response to a query, obtaining the input data, selecting a batch of the input data, creating a metadata structure for the batch, allocating one or more contiguous parts of a memory for processing the batch, processing the ...