ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,641, issued on Oct. 14.

"Data identification using inverted indexes" was invented by Jesse Miller (Piedmont, Calif.), Jason Szeto (Belmont, Calif.), Jose Solis (Mountain View, Calif.), Jindrich Dinga (Los Altos, Calif.) and David Marquardt (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed involving user interface (UI) search tools for locating data, including tools for summarizing indexed raw machine data that organize and present results to enable expansion and exploration of initial summarizations. The initial summarizations may be explored and refined to help users determine how to identify and best f...