US Patent Issued to Snowflake on Sept. 1 for "Row-level security" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,916, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Row-level security" was invented by Artin Avanes (Palo Alto, Calif.), Khalid Zaman Bijon (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Zheng Mi (Palo Alto, Calif.), Subramanian Muralidhar (Mercer Island, Wash.), David Schultz (Piedmont, Calif.) and Jian Xu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Row-level security (RLS) may provide fine-grained access control based on flexible, user-defined access policies to databases, tables, objects, and other data structures. A RLS policy may be an entity or object that defines rules for row access. A RLS policy may be decoupled or indepe...