ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,983, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).
"Elimination of legacy data objects via data compression" was invented by James W. Roper (Chicago), Naresha Chari (Chicago), Romil Parekh (Northbrook, Ill.) and Dhiraj Bawadhankar (Naperville, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes data compression logic for compression of legacy data objects defining transactions that reference inactive rate indices. The data compression logic identifies a non-legacy participant data object that defines a participant flow that is matched in magnitude and opposite in polarity to a net legacy flow associ...