US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Nov. 11 for "Optimizations to read and write transactions for large values in distributed databases" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,685, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Optimizations to read and write transactions for large values in distributed databases" was invented by Chen Luo (San Mateo, Calif.), Alexander Miller (San Mateo, Calif.), William Waddington (Stateline, Nev.) and Mingze Xu (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a key-value pair. The subject technology determines a value size of the key-value pair is greater than a threshold size for an out of line blob (OLB) key space. The subject technology performs a write operation of a key-pointer pair into a regular space. The subj...