ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,460, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Conviva Inc. (Foster City, Calif.).

"Timeline framework for time-state analytics" was invented by Henry Milner (Burlingame, Calif.), Oleg Puzyrko (San Mateo, Calif.), Jibin Zhan (San Mateo, Calif.), Hui Zhang (Burlingame, Calif.), Akara Sucharitakul (Foster City, Calif.), Vyas Sekar (Foster City, Calif.) and Yihua Cheng (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Determining a time-state metric includes receiving a stream of raw data values of an attribute. Each received raw data value of the attribute is associated with a timestamp. It further includes converting the received stream of raw data va...