US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Sept. 2 for "First class database object server application" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,407,732, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"First class database object server application" was invented by Damien Carru (New York), Jeremy Yujui Chen (Newark, Calif.), Timothy S. Conkling (San Francisco), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.), Unmesh Jagtap (San Mateo, Calif.), William A. Pugh (Seattle), Shrikant Ravindra Shanbhag (Mountain View, Calif.) and Xu Xu (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data platform for managing an application as a first-class database object. The data platform includes at least one processor and a memory storing instructi...