ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,898, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Native application integration in data system" was invented by Maynard Daniels Bryant Jr. (Roswell, Ga.) and James Pan (Oakville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for sharing application packages in a multi-tenant database system are described. A provider account can create and share an application package with provider key information. A consumer application can be installed in a consumer account based on the application package and consumer account can be registered using an onboard service user and the provider key information. A unique consu...