US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Aug. 25 for "Self-optimizing container image filesystem" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,760, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Self-optimizing container image filesystem" was invented by David B. Bailey (Signal Mountain, Tenn.), Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.), Egor Derevenetc (Berlin) and Mihir Sathe (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data platform is provided that builds a container image filesystem from a container image. The data platform executes an application that accesses the container image filesystem and the data platform records directory and file access activity of the container image filesystem by the application during execution. The data platform dynamically ...