US Patent Issued to Snowflake on May 27 for "Automated tracking of oldest running statement in distributed MVCC databases" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,267, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Automated tracking of oldest running statement in distributed MVCC databases" was invented by Cristian Diaconu (Kirkland, Wash.), Chen Luo (San Mateo, Calif.) and Alexander Miller (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology initializes a statement for execution. The subject technology determines that the statement has been executing for longer than a minimum statement timeout. The subject technology periodically updates a read timestamp table with a new update timestamp for an entry corresponding to the statement. The subject technol...