US Patent Issued to Databricks on Oct. 21 for "Efficiently vectorized implementation of operations in a global grid indexing library" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,043, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Efficiently vectorized implementation of operations in a global grid indexing library" was invented by Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi (San Francisco) and Menelaos Karavelas (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing service generates for iteratively applying a geospatial function to geospatial data. The generated code includes at least a first iterative loop and a second iterative loop. The data processing service compiles the generated code to generate compiled code that vectorized at least the second iterative loop. The data processing service...