ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,715, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Auto maintenance for data tables in cloud storage" was invented by Vijayan Prabhakaran (Los Gatos, Calif.), Himanshu Raja (Fremont, Calif.), Rahul Potharaju (San Ramon, Calif.), Naga Raju Bhanoori (Union City, Calif.), Lin Ma (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Rajesh Parangi Sharabhalingappa (Campbell, Calif.), Jintian Liang (Mountain View, Calif.), Zachary Vaughn Schuermann (San Francisco) and Kam Cheung Ting (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a configuration for managing the organization of data tables in cloud-based storage. The configuratio...