US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Sept. 30 for "Accessing data objects using user defined function (UDF) streams" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,297, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Accessing data objects using user defined function (UDF) streams" was invented by Elliott Brossard (Kirkland, Wash.), Sukruth Komarla Sukumar (Bellevue, Wash.), Isaac Kunen (Seattle), Ju-yi Kuo (Sammamish, Wash.), Jonathan Lee Leang (Seattle), Edward Ma (San Jose, Calif.), Schuyler James Manchester (San Jose, Calif.), Polita Paulus (Kirkland, Wash.), Saurin Shah (Kirkland, Wash.) and Igor Zinkovsky (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for accessing data objects using UDF streams include decoding by at least one hardware processor of a fir...