US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Dec. 2 for "Accessing data using a user-defined function (UDF)" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,048, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Accessing data using a user-defined function (UDF)" was invented by Elliott Brossard (Kirkland, Wash.), Sukruth Komarla Sukumar (Bellevue, Wash.), Isaac Kunen (Seattle), Ju-yi Kuo (Sammamish, Wash.), Jonathan Lee Leang (Seattle), Edward Ma (San Jose, Calif.), Schuyler James Manchester (San Jose, Calif.), Polita Paulus (Kirkland, Wash.), Saurin Shah (Kirkland, Wash.) and Igor Zinkovsky (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to access data includes generating, by at least one hardware processor, a user-defined function (UDF). The UDF includes a fil...