ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,656, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Scalable query processing" was invented by Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Igor Demura (Mountain View, Calif.), Varun Ganesh (San Bruno, Calif.), Prasanna Rajaperumal (Bangalore, India), Libo Wang (Foster City, Calif.) and Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a dynamic query execution model. This query execution model may provide acceleration by scaling out parallel parts of a query (also referred to as a fragment) to additional computing resources, for example computing resources leas...