ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,877, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Certinia Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Systems and methods for chronologically agnostic integration and visualization of temporal database changes" was invented by Simon Ejsing (Redmond, Wash.) and Andrew Chico (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a data structure that reduces computational load on a database in querying and visualizing historical values of slowly changing dimensions. The slowly changing dimensions have one or more values associated with them (e.g., a monthly average accounts receivable is a single value, and a set of contact information for an individua...