ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,708, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Zuora Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for predicting churn in a multi-tenant system" was invented by Carl Gold (Albany, Calif.), Dashiell Stander (San Rafael, Calif.) and Kevin Suer (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Store a subscription dataset for each tenant of a multi-tenant system, each of the subscription datasets having a common data format native to the system, the subscription datasets including billing data and not behavioral data. Determine primary features from a particular subscription dataset. Derive secondary features from the primary features. Gene...