ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,209, issued on April 29, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Factorization-based data object processing" was invented by Carl Erik Thornberg (Stockholm), Kalle Tomas Thurin (Sollentuna, Sweden), Jonas Christoffer Klemming (Stockholm) and David Sebastian Rydberg (Huddinge, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is configured to obtain constituent data streams for each data object of objects; to analyze the constituent data streams to allocate each constituent data stream to one of a set of primary groups; to assign the constituent data streams within each of the primary groups having aligned timing to a...