ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,798, issued on March 3, was assigned to SRI International (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Causal analysis with time series data" was invented by Ajay Divakaran (Monmouth Junction, N.J.), Yi Yao (Princeton, N.J.), Julia Kruk (Rego Park, N.Y.), Jesse Hostetler (Boulder, Colo.) and Jihua Huang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, various aspects of the techniques are directed to causal analysis using large scale time series data. A computing system may convert large scale time series data to first time period records and second time period records according to a multi-scale time resolution. The computing system may imple...