ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,694, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Inline compilation of user defined functions" was invented by Elliott Brossard (Kirkland, Wash.), Siddharth Kulkarni (Sammamish, Wash.) and Isaac Kunen (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein provide techniques for in-line compiling of UDFs in other programming languages. These techniques enable faster programming iterations because it allows users to compile directly in the cloud processing system. Moreover, it allows the UDFs to tie into existing libraries. The compiled results are treated as sensitive and handled with appropriate ...