ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,983, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Tracking of continuous data processing workloads" was invented by Scott Michael Bragg (Snoqualmie, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A stream of continuous data processing commands or workloads may be tracked for completeness. A stream of signals is received that includes a plurality of commands to be executed. At least one timeslice is generated in the received stream which corresponds to a period of time and includes the plurality of commands received in the period of time. The plurality of commands is categorized into at least one page...