ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,448, issued on March 11, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Configuring check constraint and row violation logging using error tables" was invented by Raja Suresh Krishna Balakrishnan (Fremont, Calif.), Ganeshan Ramachandran Iyer (Redmond, Wash.), David Schultz (Piedmont, Calif.) and Jian Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for configuring integrity constraints (including a check constraint) and row violation logging using error tables. An example method includes decoding a query received at a network-based database system. The query includes a command to perform...