US Patent Issued to Itron on July 8 for "Actor-based data processing" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,391, issued on July 8, was assigned to Itron Inc. (Liberty Lake, Wash.).

"Actor-based data processing" was invented by Wayne Creasey (Colbert, Wash.) and Thomas Kring (Concord, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving data packets from a stream partition of a plurality of stream partitions, processing the data packets with a plurality of stream processors to generate multiple table entries, transmitting the multiple table entries in batches to a plurality of staging tables, the plurality of staging tables being provided for a respective one of the plurality of stream partitions, and receiving the batches at a ...