US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Feb. 24 for "Token-based secure database query result sharing" (New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,563,025, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Token-based secure database query result sharing" was invented by Damien Carru (New York), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for sharing query results in a multi-tenant database system are described. The query results can be shared between users of the same account or organization in the multi-tenant network-based database system using security tokens. A first user executes a query, and the results are stored in the network-based database system. The first user can invoke a function t...