ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,510, issued on March 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Resource provisioning systems and methods" was invented by Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.) and Marcin Zukowski (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a first set of processors and a second set of processors comprises, the first set of processors processing a set of queries, as a result of a change in utilization of the first set of processors, processing the set of queries using the second set of processors. The change in processors is independent of a change in storage resources, the storage r...