ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,339, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"Pipelined execution of database queries processing streaming data" was invented by Michael Paul Armbrust (Berkeley, Calif.), Alexander Balikov (Kirkland, Wash.) and Boyang Peng (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system performs pipelined execution of queries that process batches of streaming data. The database system compiles a database query to generate an execution plan and determines a set of stages based on the execution plan. The database query processes streaming data comprising batches. A scheduler schedules pipelined execut...