ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,850, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Metadata search via N-gram index" was invented by Lin Chan (Bellevue, Wash.), Tianyi Chen (Kirkland, Wash.), Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.), Yiming Kang (Seattle), Jun Luo (Bellevue, Wash.), Nithin Mahesh (Redmond, Wash.), Eric Robinson (Sammamish, Wash.) and Brian Smith (Hillsborough, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "As described herein, a N-Gram index may be created and the search may be conducted using the index, which will lead to faster search results. The N-Gram index may also include partial N-Gram components to capture more relevant data. Mo...