US Patent Issued to Google on June 16 for "Packing mechanism for mitigating collisions and improving efficiency for a hash function" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,177, issued on June 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Packing mechanism for mitigating collisions and improving efficiency for a hash function" was invented by Sachin Kadu (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology generally relates to systems and methods for generating and maintaining hashed data. Data entries may be applied to a hash function so as to produce a hash value for each data entry, and data entries may have duplicative hash values to other data entries. Lookup tables may be configured to dynamically assign locations within a hash table to particular hash values based on data ent...