US Patent Issued to Snowflake on March 3 for "Dynamic shared data object masking" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,883, issued on March 3, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Dynamic shared data object masking" was invented by Artin Avanes (Palo Alto, Calif.), Khalid Zaman Bijon (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Damien Carru (New York), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Vikas Jain (Fremont, Calif.), Zheng Mi (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shared database platform implements dynamic masking on data shared between users where specific data is masked, transformed, or otherwise modified based on preconfigured functions that are associated with user roles. The shared database ...