ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,601, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ThoughtSpot Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Index sharding" was invented by Peter Kuimelis (Palo Alto, Calif.), Naresh Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Satyam Shekhar (San Jose, Calif.), Amit Prakash (Saratoga, Calif.) and Abhishek Rai (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Indexing in a low-latency data access and analysis system includes accessing, by an indexing unit of a low-latency data access and analysis system, constituent data from a data source of the low-latency data access and analysis system and indexing the constituent data in an index of the low-latency data access and analys...