ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,284, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Database replication using a resource management node" was invented by Pui Kei Johnston Chu (Richmond Hill, Canada), Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.), Shreyas Narendra Desai (Bellevue, Wash.), Sameer Deshpande (Mountain View, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Di Wu (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for database replication include a method performed by at least one hardware processor of a resource management node. The method includes detecting a request that a database instance of a database stored at a first ...