ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,115, issued on April 15, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Sharing materialized views in multiple tenant database systems" was invented by Prasanna Rajaperumal (Bangalore, India), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Allison Waingold Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.), Igor Demura (Mountain View, Calif.), Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for sharing materialized views in multiple tenant database systems. A method includes defining a materialized view over a source table that is associated with a first account of a multiple tenant...