ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,803, issued on June 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Techniques for querying time-series based event data" was invented by Abhilash Panwar (Redmond, Wash.), Clemens Alden Szyperski (Bellevue, Wash.), Hadrian Lim Wei Heng (Redmond, Wash.), Jianyu Zhao (Bellevue, Wash.), John Te-Jui Sheu (Bellevue, Wash.), Jakub Sakowicz (Redmond, Wash.), Luca Colantonio (Redmond, Wash.), Mason Collin Pine (Kirkland, Wash.), Maxim Kiryushin (London), Miquel Martin Lopez (Redmond, Wash.), Niall Vincent Egan (London), Phanidhar Gopavaram (Redmond, Wash.), Rony Alex Thomas (Gilbert, Ariz.), Santosh Balasubramanian (Seattle) and William Charles Thompson (Duvall, ...