US Patent Issued to Snowflake on May 27 for "Management of object dependency records in a cloud system" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,256, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Management of object dependency records in a cloud system" was invented by Raja Suresh Krishna Balakrishnan (Fremont, Calif.), Khalid Zaman Bijon (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), David Schultz (Piedmont, Calif.) and Jian Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure address systems, methods, and devices for tracking object dependencies in a cloud database system. An object dependency created between a referencing object and a referenced object is detected. Based on detecting the object d...