US Patent Issued to Snowflake on July 7 for "Push down top-k information for query plan optimization" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,456, issued on July 7, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Push down top-k information for query plan optimization" was invented by Bowei Chen (San Bruno, Calif.), Alice Liu (Waterloo, Canada), 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 pushing down top-k information in the query plan, which can be used within a data platform (e.g., database) environment. In particular, various example embodimen...