US Patent Issued to Databricks on Feb. 18 for "Checkpoint and restore based startup of executor nodes of a distributed computing engine for processing queries" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,137, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Checkpoint and restore based startup of executor nodes of a distributed computing engine for processing queries" was invented by Xinyang Ge (Kirkland, Wash.), Lixiang Ao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Haonan Jing (San Jose, Calif.) and Aaron Daniel Davidson (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system performs efficient startup of executors of a distributed computing engine used for processing queries, for example, database queries. The system starts an executor node and processes a set of queries using the executor node to warm up the executor node. The sys...