US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Aug. 25 for "Push down top-k information for group-by grouping sets and window function operator" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,792, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Push down top-k information for group-by grouping sets and window function operator" was invented by Bowei Chen (San Bruno, Calif.), Corbin McElhanney (San Mateo, Calif.), Eric Alan Musser (Redwood City, Calif.) and Gopal Vijayaraghavan (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments described herein provide for systems, methods, devices, instructions, and the like for optimizing a query plan for executing a query by pushing down top-k information in the query plan with respect to a group-by grouping sets operator or a wi...