ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,424, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Cloud data sharing for applications" was invented by Christopher Peter Child (Tiburon, Calif.), Matthew J. Glickman (Larchmont, N.Y.) and Justin Langseth (Kailua, Hawaii).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to share cloud data associated with a first account in a database system with an application is received. Based on the request, second-party application data and third-party data that is accessible by the first account is identified. The second-party application data comprises application data corresponding to a second application provided by a second-pa...