ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,450, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Managing version sharing in a data exchange" was invented by Pui Kei Johnston Chu (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.), Matthew J. Glickman (Larchmont, N.Y.), Christian Kleinerman (Burlingame, Calif.), Prasanna Krishnan (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Justin Langseth (Kailua, Hawaii).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing membership in a private data exchange are provided herein. In one embodiment, the method includes creating, in a first data exchange belonging to a first data provider, a first listing. The method further...