US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 25 for "Optimizing file storage in data lake tables" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,630, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Optimizing file storage in data lake tables" was invented by Elie Micah Kornfield (Seattle) and Anoop Kochummen Johnson (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for optimizing file storage includes receiving columnar data to store at a columnar data store with columns ordered with an initial ordering. The method includes determining, based on historical access patterns for the columnar data store, an updated ordering for the columns. The method includes storing the columnar data at a first location of the columnar data store using the updated...