ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,323,468, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Secure execution of user-defined functions" was invented by Brandon S. Baker (Redmond, Wash.), Derek Denny-Brown (Seattle), Michael A. Halcrow (Kirkland, Wash.), Sven Tenzing Choden Konigsmark (Seattle), Niranjan Kumar Sharma (Redmond, Wash.), Nitya Kumar Sharma (Bellevue, Wash.), Haowei Yu (Newark, Calif.) and Andong Zhan (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for securely executing user-defined functions within a cloud data platform. A method involves receiving, via hardware processors, a request to execute a user-de...