US Patent Issued to Databricks on March 31 for "Data lineage tracking" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,556, issued on March 31, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data lineage tracking" was invented by Tao Feng (Foster City, Calif.), Menglei Sun (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zhuoying Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for managing lineage data for data entities. The method includes generating lineage data, wherein generating the lineage data, and storing and indexing, in a data structure, the lineage data in association with the selected data entity. The generating the lineage data includes selecting a selected data entity, obta...