ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,731, issued on March 3, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).
"Scaling delta table optimize command" was invented by Tathagata Das (New Haven, Conn.), Rahul Shivu Mahadev (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Burak Yavuz (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The interface is to receive an indication to execute an optimize command. The processor is to receive a file name; determine whether adding a file of the file name to a current bin causes the current bin to exceed a threshold; associate the file with the current bin in response to determining that adding the file does not cause the current bin to exceed the bin threshold; ...