ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,806, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Runtime error attribution for database queries specified using a declarative database query language" was invented by Gengliang Wang (San Francisco), Wenchen Fan (Zhejiang, China), Serge Rielau (San Francisco) and Entong Shen (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system executes database queries specified using a declarative database query language such as the structured query language (SQL). The system determines whether a runtime error is encountered during execution of a query, for example, a division by zero error, resource usage errors such as ou...