US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Aug. 25 for "Column hiding management system" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,957, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Column hiding management system" was invented by Raja Suresh Krishna Balakrishnan (Fremont, Calif.), Khalid Zaman Bijon (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), David Schultz (Piedmont, Calif.) and Jian Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for managing column hiding are provided. The systems and methods receive, from a client device, a query associated with a table. The systems and methods determine an access restriction associated with the client device. The systems and methods identify a column of...