US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Dec. 2 for "Resource management systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,020, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Resource management systems and methods" was invented by Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, 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 to be coupled to one or more virtual data warehouse instances that each comprise a plurality of computing resources. A resource manager receives a query directed to database data. The resource manager determines a task associated with the query. The resource...