ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,506, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Data clean room using defined access via native applications" was invented by Rachel Frances Blum (South Orange, N.J.), Justin Langseth (Kailua, Hawaii) and Michael Earle Rainey (Kennewick, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data sharing system implemented as a local application of a distributed database. A query from a query template can be validated and executed against shared dataset that comprises portions of data from the database dataset and additional portions of data from another database of the distri...