ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,263, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Indexed geospatial search" was invented by Matthias Carl Adams (Berlin), Mahmud Allahverdiyev (Berlin), Ismail Oukid (Berlin), Peter Popov (Berlin) and Alejandro Salinger (Berlin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to perform an indexed geospatial search includes retrieving, by at least one hardware processor, a query specifying a geography data column and a constant geography object. A first plurality of hash functions of a first set of cells covering a surface associated with the geography data column is determined. A search index of a database including t...