ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,045, issued on May 13, was assigned to Mastercard International Inc. (Purchase, N.Y.).

"Database query interface extension for machine learning algorithms in business intelligence applications" was invented by Sandeep Chakravarthy Chimakurthi (Ellisville, Mo.), Matthew Edward Hopkins (St. Charles, Mo.) and Stephen G. Schwent (O'Fallon, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system includes a processor, a file system having a query application and a query interface, a database, and a query interface extension executing on the processor. The database includes a plurality of business intelligence (BI) data objects. Each of the BI...