ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,133, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Workday Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"System and algorithms for fast and scalable data access to high dimensionality with sparse data" was invented by Ragy Eleish (Las Vegas), Aaron Kaminsky (San Jose, Calif.), Yunfeng Fei (Fremont, Calif.), Yuh-Ming Shyy (Saratoga, Calif.), Ramabrahmam Venkata Velury (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ashish Patel (Fremont, Calif.) and Christof Bornhoevd (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for processing queries to sparsely populated datasets. The method includes (i) receiving a query from a...