US Patent Issued to SAS INSTITUTE on March 25 for "Analysis operations on data in a native tabular data structure using a proxy data table" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,868, issued on March 25, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).

"Analysis operations on data in a native tabular data structure using a proxy data table" was invented by Yongqiao Xiao (Cary, N.C.), Mary Elizabeth Carter (Roxboro, N.C.), Arash Dehghan Banadaki (Cary, N.C.), Avery Winston Acierno (Durham, N.C.) and Patrick Nathan Koch (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a system can receive, from application code including an analysis operation performed on a set of data, an indication to access the set of data included in a tabular data structure using an application programming interface (API)...