ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,081, issued on July 22, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Computational graph critical sections" was invented by Eugene Brevdo (San Bruno, Calif.) and Alexandre Tachard Passos (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing critical section subgraphs in a computational graph system. One of the methods includes executing a lock operation including providing, by a task server, a request to a value server to create a shared critical section object. If the task server determines that the shared critical sectio...