ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,044, issued on March 17, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Data ingestion replication and disaster recovery" was invented by Abdullah Al Mahmood (Bothell, Wash.), Ruta Dhaneshwar (Redmond, Wash.), Xin Huang (Bellevue, Wash.), Ganeshan Ramachandran Iyer (Redmond, Wash.), Jiaxing Liang (Bellevue, Wash.), Nithin Mahesh (Kirkland, Wash.), Raghav Ramachandran (Seattle), Purav B. Saraiya (Kirkland, Wash.) and Yanyi Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for improving disaster recovery, in particular disaster recovery pertaining to data transfer requests. The data transfer requ...