ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,496, issued on March 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Future scheduler for database systems" was invented by Marco H. Kroll (Berlin), Mariusz Kwiczala (Berlin), Prayag Chandran Nirmala (Seattle), William Waddington (Stateline, Nev.) and Shijie Xu (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a query, the query comprising a set of query statements. The subject technology determines that a set of resources to be utilized by the query during execution is provided by a slot, the slot comprising an allocation of resources provided by a virtual warehouse. The subject technology performs a first...