ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,758, issued on March 3, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Unified data processing across streaming and indexed data sets" was invented by Joseph Gabriel Echeverria (San Francisco), Arthur Foelsche (Montpelier, Vt.), Eric Sammer (San Francisco) and Sarah Stanger (Aspinwall, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for unified processing of indexed and streaming data. A system enables users to query indexed data or specify processing pipelines to be applied to streaming data. In some instances, a user may specify a query intended to be run against indexed data, but may specify criter...