Silverdale, WA, December 13, 2011 - Applied Technical Systems announces today that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued a patent for an innovative cellular-like data model to describe and relate complex data structures, perform distributed data analytics and find similar data based on like connections and attributes.  The patent was issued as US Patent No. 8,069,188.

When asked to describe the value of the patent to ATS, co-author Bryan Tower stated, "Since we applied for the patent in early 2008, ATS has implemented this engine in a variety of applications that need to analyze complex data relationships."  

"In the intelligence community, we created an application called Hypergraph that uses the engine to perform distributed data analytics in a secure, private cloud computing environment to enable analysts to quickly and easily perform multidimensional analysis on millions of text documents.  The invention in this patent provides a means to easily discover behaviors and patterns among seemingly unrelated data. For example, a retail store can easily analyze its customer behaviors to determine which products are more suitable for different demographics.  There are numerous applications in healthcare, evidence discovery, threat intelligence, etc."

Since 1980, ATS has been providing software engineering services, data analytics and lifecycle management services that improve operational performance through data-to-decision solutions. Headquartered in Silverdale, Washington, ATS also has offices in McLean and Suffolk, Virginia. For more information about ATS, visit www.atsid.com or call 360.698.7100.

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