US Patent Issued to Databricks on April 21 for "Static approach to lazy materialization in database scans using pushed filters" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,375, issued on April 21, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Static approach to lazy materialization in database scans using pushed filters" was invented by Shoumik Palkar (San Francisco), Alexander Behm (San Francisco), Mostafa Mokhtar (San Francisco) and Sriram Krishnamurthy (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for determining whether to apply a lazy materialization technique to a query run. The method includes receiving a request to perform a new query in a columnar database containing a plurality of columns. A step in the method includes accessing a set of data in a column of t...