US Patent Issued to Google on Feb. 3 for "Cosharding and randomized cosharding" (New York, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,497, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cosharding and randomized cosharding" was invented by Alexander Khesin (Hoboken, N.J.), Alexander Lloyd (New York) and Sebastian Kanthak (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology relates to cosharding tables within a distributed storage system. A data table including one or more rows may be received. Each row in the data table may include an identifier key and pieces of data. Each piece of data in the data table may be indexed into individual rows of an index table, wherein each row in the index table includes data associated with the id...