US Patent Issued to Snowflake on March 31 for "Distributing large amounts of global metadata using object files" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,591, issued on March 31, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Distributing large amounts of global metadata using object files" was invented by Durga Mahesh Arikatla (San Jose, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), Vishnu Dutt Paladugu (Seattle), Shakhina Pulatova (San Francisco), Di Wu (Newark, Calif.) and Ziqi Xu (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data dictionary generation system automatically populates and updates a data dictionary for listings offering shared data. The data listing distribution component distributes the data dictionaries to various remote deployments in a data...