ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,605, issued on May 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Zero copy optimization for select * queries" was invented by Pavan Edara (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jordan Tigani (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving a query specifying an operation to perform on a first table of a plurality of data blocks stored. Each data block in the first table includes a respective reference count indicating a number of tables referencing the data block. The method also includes determining that the operation specified by the query includes copying the plurality of data blo...