ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,957, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to VOLKSWAGEN AG (Germany).

"Method for processing data sets containing at least one time series, device for carrying out, vehicle and computer program" was invented by Jan Piewek (Magdeburg, Germany) and Konstantin Jonas (Berlin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for processing data sets having at least one time series. These are measurement values of sensors that are sensed at certain times. The data of the measured values and the respective times at which the data were sensed are stored as data elements of the time series. The method compresses the data set by rounding the sensed data wi...