US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Nov. 4 for "Cross-cloud replication of recurrently executing data pipelines" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,940, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Cross-cloud replication of recurrently executing data pipelines" was invented by Istvan Cseri (Seattle), Dinesh Chandrakant Kulkarni (Sammamish, Wash.), Mihir Dhananjay Kulkarni (Foster City, Calif.), Lanhao Wu (Seattle) and Di Fei Zhang (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one aspect, a computer-implemented method includes detecting a committed version of recurrently executed tasks of a first data pipeline on a primary deployment that is hosted on a first cloud service, and replicating the committed version of the recurrently executed tasks to a sec...