ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,684, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Automated completion of questionnaires based on unstructured database objects" was invented by Abhiram Arikapudi (Sammamish, Wash.), Joshua W. McKibben (Felton, Calif.), Lucas A. Reber (Poulsbo, Wash.) and Saurin Shah (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Questionnaire completion systems and methodologies for a data platform. The data platform receives from a consumer an unstructured questionnaire to be completed based on structured database objects, semi-structured database objects, and unstructured database objects stored on the data platform by a p...