ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,669, issued on March 24, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Stage replication in a cloud data lake" was invented by Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), Polita Paulus (Kirkland, Wash.), Sahaj Saini (Seattle), Saurin Shah (Kirkland, Wash.) and Srinidhi Karthik Bisthavalli Srinivasa (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are techniques for replicating external stages between deployments of e.g., a cloud data lake using a modified storage integration. The modified storage integration may be defined with a set of storage locations. The storage integration comprises a base URL for ea...