ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,719, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Time series forecasting" was invented by Xi Cheng (Kirkland, Wash.), Amir H. Hormati (Seattle), Lisa Yin (Redmond, Wash.) and Umar Syed (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for time series forecasting includes receiving a time series forecasting query from a user requesting the data processing hardware to perform a plurality of time series forecasts. Each time series forecast is a forecast of future data based on respective current data. Simultaneously, for each time series forecast of the plurality of time series forecasts requested by the ...