ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,360, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to American Express Travel Related Services Co. Inc. (New York).

"Data processing in an optimized analytics environment" was invented by Rares Ioan Almasan (Phoenix), Anand Vijai Mavelipatty Rangasamy (Phoenix), Todd W. Oulton (Phoenix) and Ravi Peethala (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for data Process an optimized analytics environment are disclosed. The system may enable users to create data processing requests, interact with various data sources and datasets, and generate data processing outputs. The system may receive a data processing request from an audio-enable...