US Patent Issued to Snowflake on May 5 for "Analytical query processing with decoupled compute instances" (California, Nevada Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,628, issued on May 5, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Analytical query processing with decoupled compute instances" was invented by Leonidas Galanis (San Jose, Calif.), Alexander Miller (San Mateo, Calif.), William Waddington (Stateline, Nev.) and Khaled Yagoub (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives, by a first set of decoupled compute instances of a distributed database, a plurality of transactional queries against a transactional processing database stored on a first set of decoupled storage instances, at least one of the first set of decoupled compute instances bypassing a c...