ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,932, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Snowflake Inc. (Bozeman, Mont.).
"Providing access control for policies" was invented by Srilakshmi Chintala (Seattle), Albert L. Hu (Seattle), Ziliang Zhang (San Mateo, Calif.) and Igor Zinkovsky (Redmond, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for a policy to enable customers to create and apply allowed items and restricted items provided by third-party managers. User code is received by a cloud data platform, the code for performing an operation. The cloud data platform receives a policy including allowed items and restricted items. The cl...