US Patent Issued to SNOWFLAKE on Feb. 3 for "Using stateless nodes to process data of catalog objects" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,534, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SNOWFLAKE INC. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Using stateless nodes to process data of catalog objects" was invented by Ashish Motivala (Foster City, Calif.) and Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of using a stateless node to process data of a catalog object. The method includes accessing a catalog object comprising metadata associated with a dataset. The method includes distributing, by one or more processors, a task to a stateless node to cause the stateless node to process the dataset without storing information indicative of a particular state of the ...