ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,249, issued on March 11, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Events account for native app event sharing" was invented by Damien Carru (New York), Pui Kei Johnston Chu (Unionville, Canada), Unmesh Jagtap (San Mateo, Calif.), Xiaodi Ke (Markham, Canada), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.) and James Pan (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a region-specific events account that is used as a central place to store the events shared by consumers of shared applications in that region. For each of a set of provider accounts in a first region, a global accoun...