US Patent Issued to Snowflake on May 27 for "Continuous ingestion of custom file formats" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,225, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Continuous ingestion of custom file formats" was invented by Tyler Arthur Akidau (Seattle), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.), Ganeshan Ramachandran Iyer (Redmond, Wash.) and Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for continuous ingestion of files using custom file formats are described. A custom file format may include formats not natively supported by a data system. Unstructured files (e.g., images) may also be considered custom file formats. A custom file format may be set...