ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,799, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Data stream replication using staggered encryption" was invented by Robert Bengt Benedikt Gernhardt (Seattle), Mikhail Kazhamiaka (Bellevue, Wash.), Eric Robinson (Sammamish, Wash.) and Rodney Weaver (Kenmore, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes encoding, by at least one hardware processor, database data in a first portion of a first data file of a plurality of data files. The encoding of the database data is based on a first encryption key. The method further includes encoding the first encryption key in a second portion of the first data fi...