ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,966, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Graph execution engine" was invented by Ashish Saxena (London), Juan Antonio Navarro Perez (London), Pavel Shmakov (London), Cyril Chimisov (London), Vinsensius B. Vega S Naryanto (Zurich), Matej Rizman (London) and Matthew Pearce (London).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining a graph that includes a plurality of nodes each representing a computational job and connected to one or more other nodes via edges. Each edge represents a dependency between two connected nodes. For each computing device of a distributed computing system, the method ...