ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,601, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Uber Technologies Inc. (San Francisco).

"Data compression for real-time analytics" was invented by Ting Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Yupeng Fu (Palo Alto, Calif.), Maksym Ivanchenko (Menlo Park, Calif.), Yu Luo (Toronto), Christopher Peck (Menlo Park, Calif.), Kirk Rodrigues (Toronto), Benjamin Ross (New York), Ujwala Prabhakar Tulshigiri (Campbell, Calif.), Kaibo Wang (Seattle) and Yun Zhang (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for compressing and querying data for real-time analytics. The system can receive log data and generate an intermediate representation by parsing a l...