ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,714, issued on May 27, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Semantic functional wrappers of services" was invented by Tom L. Button (Medina, Wash.) and Federico Zoufaly (Curridabat, Costa Rica).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Functional wrappers are scripts and related software that provide a way to group and invoke functionality comprising semantic intent in a legacy application. These functional wrappers allow programmatic access to functionality in legacy applications in contemporary software architectures without risk of porting errors. Additional functionality to provide features with presently expected, but not avail...