ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,997, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Synchronizing file-catalog table with file stage" was invented by Polita Paulus (Kirkland, Wash.), Aravind Ramarathinam (Sammamish, Wash.), Saurin Shah (Kirkland, Wash.) and Sukruth Komarla Sukumar (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems and methods for synchronizing file-catalog table with a file stage. In an embodiment, a data platform receives a notification of a modification to one or more files in a file stage. The file stage includes data storage having a storage location. The data platform updates, based ...