ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,090, issued on March 3, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Systems and methods for managing database-level roles for data sharing" was invented by Damien Carru (Rhinebeck, N.Y.), Jeremy Yujui Chen (Newark, Calif.), Laxman Mamidi (Redwood City, Calif.) and Bowen Zhang (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for managing database-level roles for data sharing. In an embodiment, a database system shares a database that resides in a data-provider account with a data-consumer account. The provider-side database includes a provider-side database-level role. The database system r...