ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,955, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for cohort analysis using compressed data objects enabling fast memory lookups" was invented by Nigam H. Shah (Menlo Park, Calif.), Vladimir Polony (Novato, Calif.), Juan Manuel Banda (Mableton, Ga.) and Alison Victoria Callahan (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for structuring unstructured data according to a data object structure that enables fast query look-ups across a variety of space and time dimensions. Furthermore, many embodiments optimize the storage ...