ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,885, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Function creation for database execution of deep learning model" was invented by Ali Ghodsi (Berkeley, Calif.), Sue Ann Hong (Berkeley, Calif.), Timothee Hunter (Berkeley, Calif.) and Shi Xin (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A function creation method is disclosed. The method comprises defining one or more database function inputs, defining cluster processing information, defining a deep learning model, and defining one or more database function outputs. A database function is created based at least in part on the one or more database function inputs...