US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Data sampling method that maintains accuracy for data analysis" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,332, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data sampling method that maintains accuracy for data analysis" was invented by Shuho Kidokoro (Ichikawa, Japan), Yojiro Adachi (Yokohama, Japan), Tomoyuki Kawamukoh (Chiba, Japan) and Tomokazu Ohtsu (Sakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an aspect, a computer-implemented method includes collecting statistics of an original database and collecting statistics of a sampling database that includes a subset of the original database. The statistics of the original database are periodically updated. The statistics of the ori...