ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,468, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Ab Initio Technology LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for performing data processing operations using variable level parallelism with pruned propagation" was invented by Garth Allen Dickie (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining processing layouts to nodes of a dataflow graph. The techniques include: obtaining information specifying a dataflow graph, the dataflow graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges connecting the plurality nodes, the plurality of edges representing flows of data among nodes in the plurality of nodes, th...