ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,859, issued on June 17, was assigned to Maplebear Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating datastore checkpoints" was invented by Jacob Jensen (Metuchen, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is directed to generating datastore checkpoints. In particular, the methods and systems of the present disclosure may generate, within a datastore, data representing multiple checkpoints. Each checkpoint of the checkpoints may correspond to a respective record of the datastore and may represent a common shared value for a field based at least in part on which the datastore is ordered. Based at least in part on the checkpoints, the ...