ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,765, issued on July 14, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Optimal free pool preprovisioning" was invented by Orestis Kostakis (Redmond, Wash.), Murray Marvin Stokely III (Los Altos, Calif.), Piotr Adam Tabor (Warsaw, Poland), Cong Wang (Sammamish, Wash.) and Lawrence Douglas Webley (Woodinville, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud data platform determines a set of candidate pre-provisioning times for compute resources to be provisioned from a cloud provider service to a free pool maintained by the cloud platform, the set of candidate pre-provisioning times being based on a demand of compute resources (N) and ...