US Patent Issued to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING on Sept. 1 for "Incrementally improving clustering of cross partition data in a distributed data system" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,745, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Incrementally improving clustering of cross partition data in a distributed data system" was invented by Babatunde Micheal Okutubo (Bellevue, Wash.), Maninderjit Singh Parmar (Redmond, Wash.) and Edgars Sedols (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for improved access to rows of data in a distributed data system. Each data row is associated with a partition. Data rows are distributed in one or more files and an impure file includes data rows associated multiple partitions. A clustering set is generat...