US Patent Issued to SNOWFLAKE on Aug. 25 for "Implementing inherited grants using secure schemas" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,958, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to SNOWFLAKE INC. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Implementing inherited grants using secure schemas" was invented by Vikas Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Eric Karlson (Alameda, Calif.) and Sepideh Khoshnood (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for using secure schemas to address inconsistencies between standard RBAC rules and the use of inherited grants. A secure schema may be defined that transfers ownership of an object created in the secure schema to a role that owns the secure schema. An inherited grant may be attached to the secure...