ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,789, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Direct access of data lake files" was invented by Johannes Alberti (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Dylan Vollrath (Atlanta), Felipe Einsfeld Kersting (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) and Rubens Luiz Rech Jr. (Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example embodiment, a solution is provided that allows users to interact directly with underlying object data lake storages in hyperscalers when accessing user data. This feature is known as direct access. Use of this solution increases performance of the user systems and the cloud systems, without impacting the f...