ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,142, issued on April 15, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for improving computational speed of planning by tracking dependencies in hypercubes" was invented by Ngoc Nguyen (Cupertino, Calif.), Darren Kermit Lee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shuyuan Chen (Palo Alto, Calif.), Ritu Jain (Fremont, Calif.) and Francis Wang (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for updating a hypercube includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to update a cell of the hypercube. The processor is configured to determine a primary dimension value associated w...