ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,325, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Query plan view framework for management of database query plans" was invented by Kavinder S. Dhaliwal (San Carlos, Calif.), Yongchul Kwon (Redmond, Wash.), Nicola Dan Onose (San Jose, Calif.) and Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for generating and managing query plan representations using a unified framework based on a common query plan configuration. The system includes a memory with instructions and one or more computer processors. The instructions, when executed, cause the sys...