US Patent Issued to Snowflake on March 4 for "Storage resource provisioning systems and methods" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,511, issued on March 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Storage resource provisioning systems and methods" was invented by Benoit Dageville (Seattle), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.) and Marcin Zukowski (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for managing a set of storage resources for a set of queries is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a method provisions processing resources of an execution platform and provisions storage resources of a storage platform. The execution platform uses the storage platform, which is shared with the execution platform, to process the set of q...