US Patent Issued to Snowflake on April 15 for "Optimized validation of cached query plans" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,117, issued on April 15, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Optimized validation of cached query plans" was invented by Karan Chadha (Kirkland, Wash.), Prashant Gaharwar (Fremont, Calif.), Shrainik Jain (Seattle), Nicola Dan Onose (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a query, the query including a statement for performing the query. The subject technology performs a lookup operation on a stored plan cache based on the query. The subject technology performs, in response to a cache match of the query to a stored query plan in the stored plan ca...