ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,336, issued on July 1, was assigned to Jive Software Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Fast ad-hoc filtering of time series analytics" was invented by Jared Smith-Mickelson (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Lance Riedel (Menlo Parrk, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques and tools are described for producing time-series data using faceted search based on document creation time. For example, index information can be created from events (e.g., by adding meta-data and indexing the events as documents). In addition, index information can be created that maps document creation time to time ranges. Search queries can then be executed (e.g., comprisin...