ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,855, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Managing real time data stream processing" was invented by Pavan Edara (Mountain View, Calif.), Jonathan Forbes (Bellevue, Wash.) and Yang Yi (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing data processing includes receiving, from a user of a data query system, a data query for data stored in a data store in communication with the data query system. The method also includes receiving a staleness parameter indicating an upper time boundary for the data query. The upper time boundary limits a query response to data within the data ...