ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,759, issued on March 3, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Build-side skew handling for join operations" was invented by Xinzhu Cai (San Mateo, Calif.) and Florian Andreas Funke (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating, by at least one hardware processor of a first computing node, a plurality of hash values using build-side row data. A frequent hash value of the plurality of hash values is detected based on row size associated with a plurality of build-side row sets including the build-side row data. A plurality of hash partitions of the build-side row data is generated using a build-s...