US Patent Issued to SAS Institute on Nov. 4 for "Iterative hierarchical processing and validation of hierarchical data in a temporary memory" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,941, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to SAS Institute Inc. (Cary, N.C.).

"Iterative hierarchical processing and validation of hierarchical data in a temporary memory" was invented by Qing Gong (Cary, N.C.), Kimberly W. Lewis (Morehead City, N.C.) and Joshua David Rony (Pleasant Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for persisting validated hierarchical data in a datastore. In one example, a system can identify, in a dataset having a dependency hierarchy, records that are independent from any other records in the dataset and store the records in a datastore. The system can identify records in the dataset th...