US Patent Issued to Google on April 21 for "Unifying runtime catalog and metastore for a cloud storage system" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,392, issued on April 21, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Unifying runtime catalog and metastore for a cloud storage system" was invented by Zhou Fang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Thibaud Hottelier (Seattle), Anoop Kochummen Johnson (Fremont, Calif.), Micah Kornfield (Seattle), Justin Levandoski (Seattle) and Yuri Volobuev (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a runtime catalog for a cloud storage engine that unifies data lakes and data warehouses. The runtime catalog can expose a single universe of cloud storage tables through an endpoint for query engines for d...