ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,854, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to THE BOSTON CONSULTING GROUP INC. (Boston).

"Multilayer processing engine in a data analytics system" was invented by Maximilian Stoehr (Mississauga, Canada), Niels Martin Freier (Paris) and Rajesh Yanamandra (Ashburn, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a multilayer processing engine of a multilayer processing system. The multilayer processing engine supports an event layer, a metadata layer, and a multi-tier processing layer. The metadata layer can refer to a functional layer that operates via a sequential hierarchy of functional layers (...