US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 27 for "Inferring graph model from data in lake" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,206, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Inferring graph model from data in lake" was invented by Santosh Balasubramanian (Seattle), Yuanyuan Tian (San Jose, Calif.) and Juan Andres Colmenares Diaz (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media infer a graph model from data. The apparatus detects joinable columns within a plurality of columns of source tables in a data lake, the joinable columns defining a plurality of relationships between columns and including columns with an m:m relationship. The apparatus extracts, from the...