US Patent Issued to Palantir Technologies on May 5 for "Projections for big database systems" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,599, issued on May 5, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Aventura, Fla.).

"Projections for big database systems" was invented by Benjamin Duffield (New York), Joshua Casale (Seattle), Mark Elliot (New York), Matthew Sills (New York), Robert Kruszewski (London) and Rahij Ramsharan (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system comprised of a decoupled compute layer and storage layer is implemented to store, build, and maintain a canonical dataset, a temporary buffer, and projection datasets. The canonical dataset is a set of batch updated data. The data is appended in chunks to the canonical dataset such that the cano...