ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,285, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Resource management systems and methods" was invented by Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.) and Marcin Zukowski (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example resource management systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a system includes a memory and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory. The processing device is to receive a query referencing database data stored in a storage platform, determine a task associated with processing the received query, and create an execution node ...