US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Feb. 24 for "Top-k information push down in query plan including inner join" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,331, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Top-k information push down in query plan including inner join" was invented by Bowei Chen (San Bruno, Calif.), Corbin McElhanney (San Mateo, Calif.) and Eric Alan Musser (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various example embodiments described herein provide for systems, methods, devices, instructions, and the like for optimizing a query plan to execute a query by using early row flush and pushing down top-k information in a query plan that includes an inner join, which can be used within a data platform environment. In particular, various exa...