ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,368, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Scalable data import into managed lakehouses" was invented by Zhou Fang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Jian Guo (Kirkland, Wash.), Thibaud Hottelier (Seattle), Anoop Kochummen Johnson (Fremont, Calif.), Micah Kornfield (Seattle), Justin Levandoski (Seattle), Yuri Volobuev (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Yiwei Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to managing files in data lakehouses using rewrite-free loading. Rewrite-free loading includes keeping track of information from data files that could be missing when import...