US Patent Issued to VANTIQ on March 4 for "Event processing in a distributed computing environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,899, issued on March 4, was assigned to VANTIQ INC. (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

"Event processing in a distributed computing environment" was invented by Paul Butterworth (Alamo, Calif.), Jacob Schmitz (Oakland, Calif.) and Daphne Nhuch (Tiburon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method distributes event processing in a distributed computing environment by storing transmission costs between computational node pairs, determining a low-cost route to deliver events from producers to consumers based on the costs, applying an augmentation to events via the low-cost route to generate augmented events, and delivering the augmented events ...