US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Sept. 30 for "Replication of unstructured staged data between database deployments" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,357, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Replication of unstructured staged data between database deployments" was invented by Robert Bengt Benedikt Gernhardt (Seattle), Chong Han (Bellevue, Wash.), Nithin Mahesh (Kirkland, Wash.), Aravind Ramarathinam (Sammamish, Wash.), Saurin Shah (Kirkland, Wash.) and Yanrui Zhang (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The distributed database can implement unstructured data replication using an internal or external storage location. Metadata, such as a directory table that lists the unstructured files, can be replicated across different deployment...