US Patent Issued to Snowflake on May 12 for "Caching systems and methods" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,881, issued on May 12, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Caching systems and methods" was invented by Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.) and Marcin Zukowski (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example caching systems and methods are described. In one implementation, a method receives a set of queries to be processed by a set of virtual warehouses. The method distributes the set of queries to the set of virtual warehouses to be executed and creates, during the processing of the set of queries by the set of virtual warehouses, a new virtual warehouse, wherein cac...