ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,303, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).
"K-D tree balanced splitting" was invented by Bart Samwel (Oegstgeest, Netherlands) and Prakhar Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for clustering data into corresponding files comprises one or more processors and a memory. The one or more processors is/are configured to: 1) determine to cluster a set of data into a set of files; 2) determine a set of split points in a corresponding set of dimensions of the set of data to determine the set of files, wherein each file of the set of files has an approximate target size; and 3) store one...