ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,199, issued on June 10, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Multi-scale exponential-smoothing forecaster for time series data" was invented by Arun Kumar Jagota (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System determines, for first value at first time in time series, first estimate based on value and velocity for time series, first lag, and first time. System determines, for first value, second estimate based on value and velocity for time series, second lag, and first time. System determines first weight based on difference between second value, at second time in time series, and first estimate and second weigh...