ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,340, issued on June 17, was assigned to Zoox Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).
"Data processing pipeline horizontal scaling" was invented by Prakul Agarwal (San Francisco), Khwaja Mustafa Sidiqi (San Diego), Stefanie Diem Anh Tonnu (San Jose, Calif.) and Christian Yang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for executing a data processing pipeline. The techniques may include receiving a job at a data pipeline queue, setting up one or more distributed processing environments, and allocating the job to one of the distributed processing environments. The techniques may further include receiving the allocate...