Snowflake Inc. Patent Application Trends in 2025

Snowflake Inc. patent applications in 2025

Top 10 Technology Areas

• G06F16/2282 ({Tablespace storage structures; Management thereof})
  • Count: 8 patents
  • Example: 20250068622. ERROR TABLES (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/24542 ({Plan optimisation})
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: 20250036620. RUNTIME JOIN PRUNING TO IMPROVE JOIN PERFORMANCE FOR TABLES (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F21/6227 ({where protection concerns the structure of data, e.g. records, types, queries})
  • Count: 6 patents
  • Example: 20250005192. IMPLEMENTING INHERITED GRANTS USING SECURE SCHEMAS (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/215 (Improving data quality; Data cleansing, e.g. de-duplication, removing invalid entries or correcting typographical errors)
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20250068522. DATABASE METADATA CORRUPTION MITIGATION (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/27 (Replication, distribution or synchronisation of data between databases or within a distributed database system; Distributed database system architectures therefor)
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20250068616. PROCESSING USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS (UDFs) USING MULTIPLE UDF CLIENTS (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F21/6218 ({to a system of files or objects, e.g. local or distributed file system or database})
  • Count: 5 patents
  • Example: 20250005192. IMPLEMENTING INHERITED GRANTS USING SECURE SCHEMAS (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/258 ({Data format conversion from or to a database})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250068616. PROCESSING USER-DEFINED FUNCTIONS (UDFs) USING MULTIPLE UDF CLIENTS (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/2365 ({Ensuring data consistency and integrity})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250068622. ERROR TABLES (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/2379 ({Updates performed during online database operations; commit processing})
  • Count: 4 patents
  • Example: 20250068640. COLUMNAR CACHE IN HYBRID TRANSACTIONAL/ANALYTICAL PROCESSING (HTAP) WORKLOADS (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/24568 ({Data stream processing; Continuous queries})
  • Count: 3 patents
  • Example: 20250036644. NOTEBOOKS WITH CACHED RESULTS (Snowflake Inc.)

Emerging Technology Areas

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• G06F16/2219 ({Large Object storage; Management thereof})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250103572. ADAPTIVE SCAN FOR HYBRID TABLES (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F2221/2141 (Indexing scheme relating to)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013776. ROW-LEVEL SECURITY (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F21/62 (Protecting access to data via a platform, e.g. using keys or access control rules)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013776. ROW-LEVEL SECURITY (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06Q30/0601 (Electronic shopping [e-shopping])
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013663. DISTRIBUTING LARGE AMOUNTS OF GLOBAL METADATA USING OBJECT FILES (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06Q30/0206 ({Price or cost determination based on market factors})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013663. DISTRIBUTING LARGE AMOUNTS OF GLOBAL METADATA USING OBJECT FILES (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/2443 ({Stored procedures})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013648. SYMMETRIC QUERY PROCESSING IN A DATABASE CLEAN ROOM (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/24565 ({Triggers; Constraints})
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013648. SYMMETRIC QUERY PROCESSING IN A DATABASE CLEAN ROOM (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F16/2358 ({Change logging, detection, and notification (replication)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013624. STREAMS USING PERSISTENT TABLES (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F8/71 (Version control (security arrangements therefor)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013453. BUNDLE VERSIONING AND UPGRADE (Snowflake Inc.)
• G06F8/65 (Updates (security arrangements therefor)
  • Count: 1 patents
  • Example: 20250013453. BUNDLE VERSIONING AND UPGRADE (Snowflake Inc.)

Top Inventors

• Subramanian Muralidhar of Mercer Island WA (US) (9 patents)
• Jiaqi Yan of Menlo Park CA (US) (5 patents)
• Ganeshan Ramachandran Iyer of Redmond WA (US) (4 patents)
• Damien Carru of New York NY (US) (4 patents)
• Istvan Cseri of Seattle WA (US) (3 patents)
• Chen Luo of San Mateo CA (US) (3 patents)
• Abdullah Al Mahmood of Bothell WA (US) (3 patents)
• Tyler Jones of Redwood City CA (US) (3 patents)
• Benoit Dageville of San Mateo CA (US) (3 patents)
• Benoit Dageville of Foster City CA (US) (3 patents)

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Geographical Distribution of Inventors

Geographical Distribution of US Inventors