US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on March 11 for "Graph based processing of multidimensional hierarchical data" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,952, issued on March 11, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Graph based processing of multidimensional hierarchical data" was invented by Jiashen Fang (Princeton, N.J.), Joakim Klas Gunnar Fagerstedt Cedin (Cambridge, Mass.), Kirk Brunson (Derry, N.H.), Ryan Griffin (Millbury, Mass.) and Cavan Spillane Stone (Maynard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multidimensional data analysis applications, including OLAP applications, simultaneously aggregate across many sets of dimensions. However, computing multidimensional aggregates is a performance bottleneck for OLAP data analysis applications. In order to improv...