ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,166, issued on June 16, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Multi-table and multi-query transactions in data lakehouses" was invented by Tobias Goetz (Garching, Germany), Daniel Ritter (Heidelberg, Germany) and Jana Gicheva Makreshanska (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transaction which targets an object store employing an open table format (OTF) may be detected by a database execution engine. Next, the database execution engine performs a determination step to determine which OTF enhancement levels to apply to the detected transaction. Then, the database execution engine applies one or more OTF enhancement levels to...