ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,770, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Autonomous column selection for columnar cache" was invented by Haoyu Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gaurav Jain (Los Altos, Calif.), Xun Cheng (Dublin, Calif.), Viral Shah (Cupertino, Calif.), Eugene Brevdo (Burlingame, Calif.) and Lyric Pankaj Doshi (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the disclosure are directed to generating cache configurations for caching data for a database. A database management system (DBMS) can search for column data to cache in a database cache to improve performance of the DBMS in resolving queries. Column dat...