ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,248, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Background job based refresh fulfillment" was invented by Durga Mahesh Arikatla (San Jose, Calif.), Laxman Mamidi (Redwood City, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), Chieh-Sheng Wang (San Mateo, Calif.) and Di Wu (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process of fulfilling a database deployment request for a data platform. A compute service manager of the data platform scans one or more accounts of a consumer region of the data platform for a pending listing fulfillment request, where the pending listing request includes a request fo...