ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,336, issued on May 26, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Container compute platform" was invented by Brandon S. Baker (Redmond, Wash.), Siyuan Chen (Foster City, Calif.), Derek Denny-Brown (Seattle), Scott C. Gray (Richmond Hill, Canada), Jaroslaw Kowalski (Redmond, Wash.) and Mark M. Manning (Penfield, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data platform for executing containers is provided. In some examples, the data platform receives an application from an application package of a provider account, the application including a setup script and a manifest of a service. The data platform activates access roles based on ...