US Patent Issued to ThoughtSpot on March 31 for "Aggregation operations in a distributed database" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,579, issued on March 31, was assigned to ThoughtSpot Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Aggregation operations in a distributed database" was invented by Ashok Anand (Bengaluru, India), Ambareesh Sreekumaran Nair Jayakumari (Cupertino, Calif.), Prateek Gaur (San Jose, Calif.) and Donko Donjerkovic (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed database that includes multiple database instances receives a data-query that includes an aggregation clause on a first column of a table. The table is partitioned into shards according to a sharding criterion based on the first column such that all rows having the same value for ...