US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Sept. 1 for "Processing user-defined functions (UDFs) using multiple UDF clients" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,761, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Processing user-defined functions (UDFs) using multiple UDF clients" was invented by Elliott Brossard (Kirkland, Wash.), Chong Han (Bellevue, Wash.) and Igor Zinkovsky (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to process UDFs includes performing, by at least one hardware processor of a database system, a resolution of application components to determine a plurality of resolved components of an application and a plurality of data types corresponding to the plurality of resolved components. The method includes instantiating a plurality of UDF client...