ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,760, issued on April 29, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Data pruning based on metadata" was invented by Marcin Zukowski (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.) and Ashish Motivala (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for pruning data based on metadata. The method may include receiving a query that includes a plurality of predicates and identifying one or more applicable files including database data satisfying at least one of the plurality of predicates. The identifying the one or more applicable files including reading metad...