ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,289, issued on June 30, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Management of object metadata across data sources and storage systems" was invented by Zhaoxing Li (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sarah Cai (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system receives, from a client device of a user, a request to create a target data table in a remote data source. The system determines whether the user has a permission to create, in a local database, a local data table corresponding to the target data table. Responsive to determining that the user has the permission, the system creates the local data table associated with a...