Patents
US patents through Dec 31, 2025 · PatentsView, from the USPTO’s Open Data Portal · read Oct 27, 2026
1,010 patents granted to the 5 names below, as the owner printed on each patent when it was granted. A later sale, a lapse or an expiry is not read, so this is what was granted to Snowflake Inc.’s names, not what it holds today.
Patents granted
1,010
1,010 utility, 1976 to Dec 31, 2025
Granted in 2025
152
Against 200 in 2024 and 214 in 2023
Applications published
986
136 of them in 2025
Names they are printed under
5
its own name, a former name, a subsidiary
By yearGrantedApplications published
'15'16'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Each pair is one calendar year. Applications are published about eighteen months after filing, so the newest years read low.
What they are aboutgrants since 2021
Computer technology808
Digital communication130
IT methods for management2
The main technology area of each patent, in the World Intellectual Property Organization’s 35 fields.
Under which name5 counted
Snowflake Inc. its own name
US, as the owner printed on each patent. 2 more under the same name are not counted (printed in DE, printed in SE)
1,001 granted
0 publishedSnowflake Inc. its own name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US. 1 more under the same name are not counted (printed in MT)
0 granted
956 publishedSnowflake Computing, Inc. a former name
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
26 publishedSnowflake Computing, Inc. a former name
US, as the owner printed on each patent
9 granted
3 publishedObserve, Inc. a subsidiary
named as the applicant on its applications, in US
0 granted
1 published
Newest grantseach row opens the USPTO’s own copy
| Granted | Patent | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,426 | Native applications using database roles | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,425 | Secure database environment with third-party verification | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,313 | Materialized view sub-database replication | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 30, 2025 | 12,511,304 | Configuration of application data object updates | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 23, 2025 | 12,505,081 | Query processing using min/max decisive row positions | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,493,604 | Distributed in-database vectorized operations using user defined table functions | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 9, 2025 | 12,493,533 | Automated failsafe data recovery | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,488,048 | Accessing data using a user-defined function (UDF) | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,488,020 | Resource management systems and methods | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 2, 2025 | 12,488,001 | Rule based hint application | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
Newest applications publishedan application is a clue, never a plan
| Published | Application | Title | Field | Owner as printed |
|---|
| Dec 25, 2025 | 2025/0390482 | DYNAMIC TABLES WITH EXTERNALLY MANAGED ICEBERG SOURCE TABLES | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 18, 2025 | 2025/0383900 | OUTBOUND PRIVATE LINK FRAMEWORK | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 11, 2025 | 2025/0378076 | HASH-JOIN BROADCAST DECISION MAKING IN DATABASE SYSTEMS | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371384 | SWAPPING MODELS BASED ON INFERENCE REQUEST MONITORING | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371186 | MOUNTLESS QUERYING OF LISTING DATA | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371093 | INITIAL RESPONSE CACHE | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371081 | CONTAINER IMAGE STORAGE INSIDE DATABASE FOR SECURED AND OPTIMIZED CODE EXECUTION | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371036 | AUTOMATIC TAG PROPAGATION | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371031 | LOGICAL CLONE REPLICATION | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
| Dec 4, 2025 | 2025/0371018 | VECTOR REPRESENTATION IN A SQL DATABASE | Computer technology | Snowflake Inc. |
What it applied for, 2024 to 2025: Computer technology 293 · Digital communication 40 · IT methods for management 4.
A patent is counted where the owner printed on it when it was granted carries the company’s own name, a former name, the name of a subsidiary its annual report lists, or its own name with a patent-holding phrase (Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property and the like), once the legal form, case and punctuation are set aside, and prints a country that name counts in. PatentsView’s data are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Source: PatentsView's granted patents and pre-grant publications, disambiguated, from the USPTO's Open Data Portal, through Dec 31, 2025, read Oct 27, 2026.