ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,843, issued on May 20, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Conditional bloom filters representing field aliasing" was invented by Peter von der Ahe (Aarhus, Denmark), Mikkel Milo Tromborg Nielsen (Aarhus, Denmark) and Erik Soe Sorensen (Skanderborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Conditional Bloom filters improve computer functioning when membership testing different data sets. Today's cloud service providers maintain large, distributed datasets often incorporating or absorbing data having different labels and schemes. Nearly all cloud service providers, for example, utilize one or more different log vendor...