ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,631, issued on Aug. 19.

"Processing data using nodes in a scalable environment" was invented by Alexandros Batsakis (San Francisco), Ashish Mathew (San Mateo, Calif.), Christopher Madden Pride (Oakland, Calif.), Bharath Kishore Reddy Aleti (San Ramon, Calif.), Sourav Pal (Foster City, Calif.), Arindam Bhattacharjee (Fremont, Calif.), James Monschke (San Francisco), Sai Krishna Sajja (Union City, Calif.), Igor Stojanovski (San Francisco), Tameem Anwar (South San Francisco, Calif.), Paul J. Lucas (Oakland, Calif.), Eric Woo (San Francisco) and Steve Wong (San Rafael, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclos...