ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,223,077, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Organization-level global data object on data platform" was invented by Christine A. Avanessians (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Damien Carru (New York), Ramachandran Natarajan Iyer (Fremont, Calif.), Eric Karlson (Alameda, Calif.) and Dennis Edgar Lynch (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for global data objects on a data platform where the global data objects are accessible at an organization level. In particular, an organization-level global data object provided by various embodiments can be used as a generic or...