US Patent Issued to Visa International Service Association on Feb. 10 for "Fast solvers for sparse structured linear systems" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,350, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Fast solvers for sparse structured linear systems" was invented by Peter Rindal (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Srinivasan Raghuraman (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is disclosed. The method comprises a receiving a plurality of key-value pairs. The method then generates a random binary matrix of at least weight three. The random binary matrix has a number of non-zero binary values equal to the weight in each row. The method can then assign each key in the plurality of key-value pairs to a row in the random binary matrix....