ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,653, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to ABBYY Development Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"System and method for visual analysis of event sequences" was invented by Scott Opitz (Media, Pa.) and Alex Elkin (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for creating event sequences from event data and then providing a visual analysis of event sequences. Event-related data for a set of event sequences is analyzed, and event sequences are grouped. Sequence metrics are calculated for the event sequences, and a user interface is provided to display a visual representation of the set of event sequences and the sequence metrics f...