ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,954, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Hidden database objects over external data" was invented by Kavinder S. Dhaliwal (San Carlos, Calif.), Bicheng Gao (San Mateo, Calif.), Valeri Kim (Sammamish, Wash.), Nithin Mahesh (Kirkland, Wash.), Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Jiaqi Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology provides techniques for enabling hidden database objects, which in an example are utilized for testing and verifying new database objects against existing workloads. Hidden database objects are a mechanism for bridging that gap by running user w...