US Patent Issued to VAST DATA on April 21 for "Sorted database table" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,361, issued on April 21, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Sorted database table" was invented by Oren Ashkenazi (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Vlad Zdornov (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for updating a partially ordered database, the method includes (a) obtaining, by a merge circuit, density values of multiple sorted table chunks of the partially ordered database, wherein a density value of each sorted table chunk is indicative of a relationship between a number of populated rows of the sorted table chunk and a width of the sorted table chunk, wherein the width of the sorted table chunk is deter...