ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,800, issued on March 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient and scalable data processing and modeling" was invented by Rajesh Sambavarvadakarai Rajagopalan (Campbell, Calif.), Mrinalini Sharma (Campbell, Calif.), Anthony Joseph Rice (Denver) and Taimur Mushtaq Khan (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for improved forecasting of the distribution of digital components that may be provided over a network as a response to an electronic request for certain types of content. In some aspects, a method incl...