US Patent Issued to Snowflake on April 29 for "Resource management systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,808, issued on April 29, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Resource management systems and methods" was invented by Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (San Carlos, Calif.) and Marcin Zukowski (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example resource management systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a resource manager is configured to manage data processing tasks associated with multiple data elements. An execution platform is coupled to the resource manager and includes multiple execution nodes configured to store data retrieved from multiple remote storage devices. Each e...