ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,705, issued on April 7, was assigned to Dremio Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Change control and version management of data" was invented by Jacques Claude Nadeau (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ryan Murray (Bavaria, Germany), Robert Stupp (Cologne, Germany) and Thomas W. Fry (Bedford, N.H.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs a distributed version control on a data lake. A change to the data lake can be performed within a single atomic commit that defines a set of changes. Commits are built on top of each other and describe incremental changes, which creates a sequence of atomic commits that defines a history of changes. The commi...