US Patent Issued to Snowflake on March 17 for "Query-execution planning using reinforcement learning" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,145, issued on March 17, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Query-execution planning using reinforcement learning" was invented by Qiming Jiang (Redmond, Wash.), Orestis Kostakis (Redmond, Wash.) and John Reumann (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for improving query scheduling on a computing cluster using reinforcement learning is provided. A series of queries to be executed using resources of the computing cluster is received. For each query, a query execution plan is generated and a resource profile for executing the query is predicted. Current state data of the cluster resources is received a...