ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,459, issued on July 7, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Automatic evolution of dynamic tables based on object tracking" was invented by Hung-An Chen (Seattle), Arvid Heise (Michendorf, Germany), Daniel Mills (Seattle), Duc Tien Nguyen (Munich), Leon Papke (Berlin) and Attila-Peter Toth (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein are systems and methods for configuring automatic evolution of dynamic tables. An example method includes parsing, by at least one hardware processor, a query associated with a dynamic table to determine a current base object dependency of the dynamic table on at least a fi...