ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,426, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Native applications using database roles" was invented by Damien Carru (New York), Jeremy Yujui Chen (Waterloo, Canada), Pui Kei Johnston Chu (Unionville, Canada), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Istvan Cseri (Seattle), Benoit Dageville (San Carlos, Calif.), Unmesh Jagtap (San Mateo, Calif.) and Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure related to sharing applications within a data sharing platform. An example method includes replicating a database from a provider account of a data sha...