ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,870, issued on March 3, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Lossy compression of time series data" was invented by Jeffrey Max Quinlan-Galper (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes obtaining time series data that includes a series of data points listed in temporal order. The method includes determining that a size of the time series data fails to satisfy a threshold size. In response, the method includes determining a range of the series of data points and determining, using the range of the series of data points, a respective score for each respective data point in the series of data point...