ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,859, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"User interface for managing distributed query execution" was invented by David C. Tracey (Monasterboice, Ireland) and Miguel A. Casanova (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to implement a distributed query execution system that performs statistical operations on specified time windows over time-based datasets. In embodiments, the query system splits a statistical function into a set of parallel accumulator tasks that correspond to different portions of the dataset and/or function time windows. The accumulator tasks are executed in para...