ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,829, issued on May 20, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).
"Execution and attestation of user defined functions in databases" was invented by Martin Grund (San Francisco), Herman Rudolf Petrus Catharina van Hovell tot Westerflier (San Francisco) and Stefania Leone (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system executes user defined functions (UDFs) invoked by database queries. The UDF includes UDF code specified using a programing language distinct from a database query language. A hash value from the UDF code provided by a client application for creating the UDF is compared with a hash value generated from UDF c...