US Patent Issued to YAHOO ASSETS on Dec. 9 for "Annotating datasets without redundant copying" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,611, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to YAHOO ASSETS LLC (New York).

"Annotating datasets without redundant copying" was invented by George Aleksandrovich (Hoffman Estates, Ill.), Allie K. Watfa (Urbana, Ill.), Robin Sahner (Urbana, Ill.) and Mike Pippin (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments are methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for annotating distributed data without redundant data copying. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising reading a raw dataset, the raw dataset comprising a first set of columns and a first set of rows; generating an annotation dataset, the annotation...