ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,901, issued on June 9, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Database metadata corruption mitigation" was invented by Selcuk Aya (Izmir, Turkey), Leonid Baraznenok (Bothell, Wash.), Jaeha Lee (Redmond, Wash.), Adrian Peter Neumann (Berlin), Ryan Michael Thomas Shelly (San Francisco), Zerui Wei (San Mateo, Calif.) and Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data protection system is provided. The data protection system performs identification of errors from queries on a database. The data protection system can further identify corrupted data from additional errors, that are difficult to detect, and oc...