ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,316,681, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Data platform with unified privileges" was invented by Jeremy Yujui Chen (Newark, Calif.), Unmesh Jagtap (San Mateo, Calif.), William A. Pugh (Seattle), Brian Smith (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Xu Xu (Campbell, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data platform for developing and deploying a user application within a unified security context. The data platform authorizes a first user to use an editor to access source code of a user application based on security policies of a security context and authorizes the first user to use an application and data manager t...