ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,606, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Integrity verification in cloud data lakes" was invented by Grisha Weintraub (Givatayim, Israel), Leonid Rise (Beer Sheva, Israel), Eli Shemesh (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Avraham Illouz (Lod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for performing integrity verification of data obtained from cloud data lake are provided. Aspects include transmitting a request for a data set to the cloud data lake, receiving a plurality of file names from the cloud data lake, and extracting, from the plurality of file names, one or more partitions of the c...