ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,495, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Distributed computing pipeline processing" was invented by Rohan Anil (San Francisco), Battulga Bayarsaikhan (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ryan P. Doherty (San Jose, Calif.) and Emanuel Taropa (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing computational graphs on distributed computing devices. One of the methods includes receiving a request to execute a processing pipeline (i) first operations that transform raw inputs into pre-processed inputs and (ii) ...