ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,301, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Crowdstrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Stable and discernable mapping of categorical data to colors for graphical display" was invented by Soren Skovsboll (Skanderborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data is received. Each datum therein has one of a plurality of categorical values associated with a categorical variable. Each datum is deterministically mapped to a respective one of a plurality of colors in a color space based on its categorical value. The color to which each datum is deterministically mapped is then transformed to yield a minimum threshold separation between the respecti...