ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,266, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Managed tables for data lakes" was invented by Thibaud Hottelier (Seattle), Anoop Kochummen Johnson (Fremont, Calif.), Justin Levandoski (Seattle), Gaurav Saxena (Bothell, Wash.) and Yuri Volobuev (Walnut Creek, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to merging data lake openness with scalable metadata for managed tables in a cloud database platform, allowing for atomicity, consistency, isolation, and durability (ACID) transactions, performant data manipulation language (DML), higher throughput stream ingestion, data con...