US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Dec. 9 for "Distributed in-database vectorized operations using user defined table functions" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,604, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Distributed in-database vectorized operations using user defined table functions" was invented by Pradeep Dorairaj (Fremont, Calif.) and Garrett Frere (Long Island City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology determines a set of shards of rows from a data set based on a number of rows and a number of execution nodes to execute a request for determining a correlation. For each shard from the set of shards, the subject technology sends a particular user defined table function (UDTF), including a particular shard of rows, to a different execution...