ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,917, issued on June 17, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Univariate time series segmentation using proxy variables and sparse graph recovery algorithms" was invented by Harsh Shrivastava (Redmond, Wash.) and Shima Imani (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a time series segmentation system that efficiently and accurately segments univariate time series data. For example, the time series segmentation system utilizes proxy variable time series to identify distinct segments in a univariate time series. To illustrate, the time series segmentation system generates...