US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Aug. 12 for "Micro-partition clustering based on expression property metadata" (California, Washington, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,863, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Micro-partition clustering based on expression property metadata" was invented by Varun Ganesh (San Carlos, Calif.), Alvin E. Jou (Woodinville, Wash.), Donghe Kang (Columbus, Ohio), Ryan Michael Thomas Shelly (San Francisco), Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Yizhi Zhu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for selecting micro-partitions for a clustering operation includes: storing table data in a plurality of micro-partitions of a storage device, wherein each of the plurality of micro-partitions comprises a portion of the table data, wherein...