ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,833, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Distributed execution of transactional queries" was invented by Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Moritz Eyssen (Berlin), Max Heimel (Berlin), Lishi Jiang (Bellevue, Wash.) and Alexander Miller (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives, at a first execution node, a first transaction, the first transaction to be executed on linearizable storage. The subject technology determines whether the first execution node corresponds to a rank indicating a leader worker. The subject technology, in response to the first execution n...