US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Nov. 4 for "Fine-grained access control via database roles" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,056, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Fine-grained access control via database roles" was invented by Damien Carru (New York), Pui Kei Johnston Chu (Unionville, Canada), Benoit Dageville (San Carlos, Calif.), Shreyas Narendra Desai (Bellevue, Wash.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Bowen Zhang (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to sharing data using database roles. Database roles are generated within a database container of a provider account. Grants to a particular subset of the plurality of data objects of the database conta...