US Patent Issued to Databricks on Sept. 2 for "Generating minor compactions to capture aggregated actions for commit ranges to data files" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,943, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Generating minor compactions to capture aggregated actions for commit ranges to data files" was invented by Frederick Ryan Johnson (Orem, Utah) and Prakhar Jain (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing service uses minor compactions for committing transactions to a data table. The service may receive requests to commit transactions to a data table and write metadata for the transactions to log files, and generate a checkpoint file aggregating the transactions described in the log files to compute a data table state at a first time. Th...