ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,711,275, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Data clean room" was invented by Rachel Frances Blum (South Orange, N.J.), Joshua James Chacona (North Hollywood, Calif.), Christian Kleinerman (Burlingame, Calif.), Justin Langseth (Kailua, Hawaii) and William L. Stratton Jr. (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a data clean room allowing secure data analysis across multiple accounts, without the use of third parties. Each account may be associated with a different company or party. The data clean room may provide security functions to safeguard sensitive in...