US Patent Issued to Snowflake on April 15 for "Dataframe workloads using read-only data snapshots" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,101, issued on April 15, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Dataframe workloads using read-only data snapshots" was invented by Srilakshmi Chintala (Seattle), Jianzhun Du (Kirkland, Wash.), Naresh Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srinath Shankar (Belmont, Calif.), Leonhard Franz Spiegelberg (San Francisco), Eric Shawn Vandenberg (Saratoga, Calif.), Andong Zhan (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yun Zou (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method provides deterministic row ordering for query result sets in a database system. A framework receives a query referencing a database table and generating a row index column in re...