ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,323, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Data replication and data failover in data storage systems" was invented by Benoit Dageville (Seattle), Eric Robinson (Sammamish, Wash.) and Martin Hentschel (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replication and failover of data is disclosed. A method includes replicating the data stored in a primary deployment such that the data is further stored in a secondary deployment. The method includes executing one or more transactions on the data at the primary deployment to cause a change to the data to be stored in the primary deployment. The method includes pro...