ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,140, issued on May 26, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Real-time data processing pipeline and pacing control systems and methods" was invented by Charles Brian O'Kelley (New York), Catherine Mary Williams (Seattle), Taylor Edward Burmeister (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Yaron Lissack (Great Neck, N.Y.), Justin Pines (New York), Samuel Seljan (Portland, Ore.) and Jaidev Sridhar (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data processing system includes a transaction bus, a console application in communication with the transaction bus, and a view predictor subsystem in communication with the transaction bus. The...