ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,713, issued on April 7, was assigned to Bitdrift Inc. (San Francisco).

"Systems and methods for reducing the cardinality of metrics queries" was invented by Behrooz Badii (Westport, Conn.) and Yann Thomas Ramin (Folsom, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing platform may be configured to (i) perform an analysis of a saved query comprising an expression that specifies a set of one or more unique metrics for which metric data is to be fetched from a metrics management platform when the saved query is run, (ii) determine a strategy for reducing a cardinality level of the saved query based at least in part on the analysis of t...