US Patent Issued to Snowflake on June 3 for "Query block boundary identification" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,350, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Query block boundary identification" was invented by Walter Zhen Cai (Seattle), Sangyong Hwang (Sammamish, Wash.), Wesley A. Leung (Bellevue, Wash.), Sourav Sikdar (Houston) and Li Yan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a query. The subject technology generates a set of query blocks based on parsing the query. The subject technology stores query block metadata for each query block from the set of query blocks. The subject technology restores a set of logical query block boundaries. The subject technology performs a hash...