ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,142, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"System for list-based database replication" was invented by Pui Kei Johnston Chu (Richmond Hill, Canada), Shreyas Narendra Desai (Bellevue, Wash.), German Alberto Gil Echeverri (San Francisco), Prasanna Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nithin Mahesh (Redmond, Wash.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), Eric Robinson (Sammamish, Wash.) and Sahaj Saini (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of implementing sub-table replication starts with the processor detecting an update to an entitlements table. The processor performs filtering of a data tabl...