ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,786, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Google Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Parallel processing of data" was invented by Craig D. Chambers (Seattle), Ashish Raniwala (Bellevue, Wash.), Frances J. Perry (Seattle), Stephen R. Adams (Seattle), Robert R. Henry (Seattle), Robert Bradshaw (Seattle) and Nathan Weizenbaum (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data parallel pipeline may specify multiple parallel data objects that contain multiple elements and multiple parallel operations that operate on the parallel data objects. Based on the data parallel pipeline, a dataflow graph of deferred parallel data objects and deferred parallel ...