ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,851, issued on April 1, was assigned to Nuvolo Technologies Corp. (Wellesley, Mass.).
"Stream-based job processing" was invented by Collin Parker (Chatsworth, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques for managing and executing digital workflows are described. A technique described includes obtaining a job record from a job queue from a first server; assigning a node associated with a second server to handle a task indicated by the job record; operating, at the second server, a first action block in the node to produce output results in response to executing the task and to forward the output results to batch block...