US Patent Issued to Snowflake on April 21 for "Multi-phase query plan caching" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,378, issued on April 21, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Multi-phase query plan caching" was invented by Xuelai Cui (Seattle), Prashant Gaharwar (Fremont, Calif.), Vineet Garg (San Jose, Calif.), Boyung Lee (Kirkland, Wash.), Kevin Ye Jie Li (Burnaby, Canada), Nicola Dan Onose (San Jose, Calif.), Andrew Z. Xue (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a query, the query including a statement for performing the query. The subject technology performs a first lookup operation on a multi-phase cache based on the query. The subject technology...