US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Jan. 20 for "Asynchronous task queue configuration in a database system" (Washington, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,229, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Asynchronous task queue configuration in a database system" was invented by Gabriel Kliot (Redmond, Wash.), Ruji Xie (Bellevue, Wash.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.) and William Waddington (Stateline, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for configuring an asynchronous task queue are disclosed. An example method includes enqueuing, by at least one hardware processor of a first computing node, a task in a task queue. The at least one hardware processor detects a lease request for the task. The lease request is received from a second com...