US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Feb. 25 for "Privilege based access checks for query results" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,235,985, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Privilege based access checks for query results" was invented by Damien Carru (New York), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), Nicola Dan Onose (San Jose, Calif.), Ryan Michael Thomas Shelly (San Francisco), Brian Smith (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Jaeyun Noh (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein can allow users to share cached results of an original query with other users while protecting sensitive information. The techniques described herein can check whether the other users ...