ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,361, issued on June 3, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Unified structured and semi-structured data types in database systems" was invented by Xinzhu Cai (San Mateo, Calif.), Bowei Chen (San Bruno, Calif.), Prateek Gaur (San Jose, Calif.), Dmitry A. Lychagin (San Jose, Calif.), Muthunagappan Muthuraman (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Zhuo Peng (San Jose, Calif.), Mengran Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a query, the query referencing a unified representation for structured type data and semi-structured type data, the unified representation be...