ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,247, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Identifying software regressions based on query retry attempts in a database environment" was invented by Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.), Johan Harjono (San Francisco), Kunal Prafulla Nabar (Burlingame, Calif.) and Steven James Pelley (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and devices for retrying a query. A method includes receiving a query directed to database data and assigning execution of the query to one or more execution nodes of an execution platform, the one or more execution nodes configured to execute the query on a ...