US Patent Issued to Howso on March 25 for "Search and query in computer-based reasoning systems" (North Carolina, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,348, issued on March 25, was assigned to Howso Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Search and query in computer-based reasoning systems" was invented by Michael Auerbach (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael Resnick (Raleigh, N.C.) and Christopher James Hazard (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for improved searching and querying in computer-based reasoning systems are discussed and include receiving multiple new multidimensional data element to store in a computer-based reasoning data model; determining a feature bucket for each feature of each data element and storing a reference identifier in the feature bucket(s). A query on the c...