US Patent Issued to Kinaxis on Oct. 28 for "Systems and methods for determining date proximity in features engineering" (Canadian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,721, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for determining date proximity in features engineering" was invented by Mark Head (Kemptville, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems that improve upon the speed of engineering features related to date differences. Such methods and systems comprise one or more data structures that can use epoch dates to establish an index in the data structure, and integer differences as values in the data structure. The data structures can then be used as a lookup for a date of interest, to efficiently determine the number days since a previous tar...