ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,384, issued on April 14, was assigned to Scuba Analytics Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Methods for enhancing rapid data analysis" was invented by Robert Johnson (Palo Alto, Calif.), Oleksandr Barykin (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alex Suhan (Menlo Park, Calif.), Lior Abraham (San Francisco) and Don Fossgreen (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for enhancing rapid data analysis includes receiving a set of data; storing the set of data in a first set of data shards sharded by a first field; and identifying anomalous data from the set of data by monitoring a range of shard indices associated with a first shard of the...