US Patent Issued to Snowflake on May 27 for "Projection constraint policies in a database system" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,319, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Projection constraint policies in a database system" was invented by Khalid Zaman Bijon (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Simon Holm Jensen (Menlo Park, Calif.), Allison Waingold Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.), Daniel N. Meredith (Laguna Beach, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), David Schultz (Piedmont, Calif.) and Zixi Zhang (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system facilitates secure data sharing by implementing projection constraints within a query processing framework. Upon receiving a query...