ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,843, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to SAP SE (Walldorf, Germany).

"Intelligent analytics for cloud computing" was invented by Hong Xu (Charlotte, N.C.), Roberto Valdovinos (Santiago, Chile) and Jason Kirst (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program. The program receives, from a client device, a request for information associated with a category. In response to the request, the program further accesses a storage to retrieve a first value associated with the category. The program also determines a set of values associated with the category base...