US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Sept. 1 for "Predictive resource allocation for distributed query execution" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,772, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Predictive resource allocation for distributed query execution" was invented by Qiming Jiang (Redmond, Wash.) and Orestis Kostakis (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject technology receives a query directed to a set of source tables, each source table organized into a set of micro-partitions. The subject technology determines a set of metadata, the set of metadata comprising table metadata, query metadata, and historical data related to the query. The subject technology predicts, using a machine learning model, an indicator of an amount of c...