ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,637, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SIGMA COMPUTING INC. (San Francisco).

"Creating data warehouse views for input tables" was invented by Gregory G. Owen (San Mateo, Calif.), Stipo Josipovic (San Francisco), Ian Gardner (San Francisco), James L Gale (San Francisco) and Kang-Hua Wu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creating data warehouse views for input tables including: selecting, by a workbook manager, a subset of columns of an input table stored in a cloud-based data warehouse, wherein the subset of columns excludes one or more metadata columns of the input table; generating, by the workbook manager, a vie...