ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,713, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Virtual column construction method based on data lake and data query method" was invented by Jun Guo (Beijing), Jiajun Xie (Beijing), Ke Sun (Beijing) and Xuan Luo (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a virtual column construction method based on data lake and a data query method. The present disclosure includes: first, automatically performing expression statistical analysis on a large quantity of statements to be analyzed in a data lake, so as to obtain an expression to be used; next, automatically const...