ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,810, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).

"Interleaved execution infrastructure in database engines" was invented by Thierry Cruanes (San Mateo, Calif.), Benoit Dageville (San Mateo, Calif.), Igor Demura (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Charles Forney (Mountain View, Calif.), Weili Gu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Yujie Li (Santa Clara, Calif.), Mohammad Saber Mirzaei (Seattle), Jaeyun Noh (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Jiaqi Yan (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Interleaved infrastructure can interleave fragment execution during query compilation. For example, compilation can be paused, and a plan fragm...