ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,896, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Dynamic database pipeline scheduler" was invented by Sebastian BreB (Berlin), Moritz Eyssen (Berlin), Max Heimel (Berlin) and Max Jendruk (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system configured to optimize query execution through an opportunistic scheduling approach. The database system generates a query plan and identifies a contingent database operation within the query plan, the contingent database operation being dependent on a completion of at least one additional operation. The database system schedules the contingent operation using an opport...