US Patent Issued to Chicago Mercantile Exchange on Feb. 4 for "Accumulation-based data object processing" (Swedish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,630, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. (Chicago).

"Accumulation-based data object processing" was invented by Paul Oglesby (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Kalle Tomas Thurin (Sollentuna, Sweden) and Carl Erik Thornberg (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system implements data compression for a plurality of data objects each having a respective fixed data constituent and a variable data constituent. The data compression includes selecting a first subset of the fixed data constituents and a second subset of the variable data constituents. The second subset of the variable data constituents having an end date ...