US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Dec. 2 for "Storage lifecycle control in a database system" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,977, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Storage lifecycle control in a database system" was invented by Istvan Cseri (Seattle), Mayank Gupta (Seattle), Kishore Udayashankar Kasi (San Jose, Calif.), Sukruth Komarla Sukumar (Bellevue, Wash.), Polita Paulus (Kirkland, Wash.) and Saurin Shah (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for controlling the deletion of data in a database system. The system receives input comprising a deletion criterion for a database system. The system applies the deletion criterion to a set of tables of the database system. The system det...