US Patent Issued to Snowflake on June 2 for "Data replication with cross replication group references" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,539, issued on June 2, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Data replication with cross replication group references" was invented by Robert Bengt Benedikt Gernhardt (Seattle), Nithin Mahesh (Kirkland, Wash.), Sahaj Saini (Seattle) and Matthew Uhlar (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides methods and techniques of data replication involving cross replication group (RG) references. The present disclosure avoids automatic replication failing when an entity in an RG refers to another entity external to the RG. The entity to be replicated within the RG is referred to as the "referring entity," and...