ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,700, issued on April 7, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Concurrent optimistic transactions for tables with deletion vectors" was invented by Bart Samwel (Oegstgeest, Netherlands) and Christos Stavrakakis (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disclosed configuration receives a first indication that a first transaction is committed to update a first subset of records in a data table at a first version to generate a second version of the data table and receiving a second indication to commit a second transaction to update a second subset of records in a data file of the data table at the first version. The configura...