ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,648, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Row-order dependent dataframe workloads" was invented by Srilakshmi Chintala (Seattle), Jianzhun Du (Kirkland, Wash.), Naresh Kumar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Srinath Shankar (Belmont, Calif.), Leonhard Franz Spiegelberg (San Francisco), Eric Shawn Vandenberg (Saratoga, Calif.), Andong Zhan (San Mateo, Calif.) and Yun Zou (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving instructions to perform order-dependent DataFrame operation on data. In response to receiving the instructions, the framework analyzes the instructions to identify the ord...