ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,593, issued on May 5, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Menlo Park, Calif.).
"Efficient computation over a wide table" was invented by Suraj P. Acharya (Newark, Calif.), Yimeng Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Raghavendran Ramakrishnan (Kirkland, Wash.), Chao Tan (Issaquah, Wash.) and Yunqiao Zhang (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for efficient computation over a wide table. A processing device determines that a first number of columns of a first table is greater than a threshold number of columns. The processing device transforms the first table into a second table based on th...