ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,764, issued on March 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Cloud agnostic service discovery" was invented by Jonathan C. Allie (Newton, N.C.), Seth Hettich (Los Altos, Calif.) and Aaron S. Joyner (Granite Falls, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a processing device and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing device, causes the processing device to obtain a health check instruction that is specific to a name of a service that is associated with one or more endpoints, including performing a lookup with the name to obtain the health check instruction that is specific to...