US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Jan. 28 for "Bundle creation and distribution" (New York, Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,492, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Bundle creation and distribution" was invented by Damien Carru (New York), Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), Eric Robinson (Sammamish, Wash.), Sahaj Saini (Seattle) and David Schultz (Piedmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for creating, sharing, and using bundles (also referred to as packages) in a multi-tenant database are described herein. A bundle is a schema object with associated hidden schemas. A bundle can be created by a provider user and can be shared with a plurality of consumer us...