US Patent Issued to Snowflake on June 16 for "Fencing mechanism of statements for distributed multi-version concurrency control" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,181, issued on June 16, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Fencing mechanism of statements for distributed multi-version concurrency control" was invented by Nikolaos Romanos Katsipoulakis (Redwood City, Calif.) and Alexander Miller (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology determines that a request to commit a transaction has been received. The subject technology prior to committing the transaction, performs a write operation to store a metadata version of a table associated with the transaction in a metastore. The subject technology performs a register operation to register a backgr...