ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,815, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Databricks Inc. (San Francisco).

"State rebalancing in structured streaming" was invented by Alexander Balikov (Kirkland, Wash.), Tathagata Das (New Haven, Conn.) and Karthikeyan Ramasamy (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing service performs a rebalancing process for rebalancing stateful tasks on a cluster computing system. In one instance, the method for rebalancing stateful tasks is performed such that the per-operator partitions are spread across available executors of a cluster of the cluster computing system with respect to one or more statistics of the t...