ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,948, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Organization-level account on data platform" was invented by Christine A. Avanessians (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Damien Carru (New York), Ramachandran Natarajan Iyer (Fremont, Calif.), Dennis Edgar Lynch (San Carlos, Calif.) and Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for an organization-level account for an organization on a data platform, users of which can possess administrative or management privileges with respect to the organization and across one or more others accounts of the organization."

The patent ...