ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,263, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Zuora Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for stratification of datasets to resolve one or more conforming values in a multi-tenant system" was invented by Weijie Qu (Beijing), Nikki Wong (San Anselmo, Calif.) and Sai Ram Rakesh Gorenta (Lathrop, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-tenant system includes hardware processors that ingest a dataset including transaction records, each of the transaction records including a field value and attribute values of different attributes. The hardware processors test candidate stratification mechanisms on the dataset, each candidate ...