ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,631, issued on May 5, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Caching systems and methods" was invented by Benoit Dageville (Foster City, Calif.), Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, 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 query, at an execution platform, directed to data stored across a plurality of shared storage devices, the execution platform comprising one or more execution nodes, an execution node comprising a plurality of processors. The method processes the query using the one or more executi...