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Patents

Part of About Rory. 18 core U.S. patents, inventor Rory Riggs, assignee Locus LP, specifying the Locus Model and the Functional Information System — plus notable related filings.

The patent family spans Functional Coordinates, the Functional Coordinate System, Functional Location, Functional Space, Functional Proximity, Functional Trajectory, the Functional Information System, and Systems Syntax — the full mechanics of which are documented on the Coordinate System page and defined term-by-term in the Lexicon.

Primary patent register

The 18 grants that constitute the core Functional Information System patent family, in order of issue, verified against each patent’s printed face page. Several late-family grants (the four “Syntactic tagging in a domain-specific context” patents, and the “Predictive search and navigation” continuations) extend a single earlier invention rather than claiming an unrelated one — see each patent’s Google Patents page for its full continuation history.

  • US 8,990,268 (issued Mar. 24, 2015; filed Mar. 17, 2014) — “Domain-specific syntax tagging in a functional information system”. Inventor: Rory Riggs. Assignee: Locus LP. Foundational functional-coordinate system assigning standardized syntax tags that position data entities in n-dimensional space for cross-domain comparison. View patent.
  • US 9,069,802 (issued Jun. 30, 2015; filed Mar. 17, 2014) — “Syntactic tagging in a domain-specific context”. Inventor: Rory Riggs. Assignee: Locus, LP. Method for defining domain-specific syntax and tagging data entities so tags remain logically linked to stored data. View patent.
  • US 9,098,878 (issued Aug. 4, 2015; filed Jan. 23, 2015) — “Stratified composite portfolios of investment securities”. Inventor: Rory Riggs. Assignee: Locus, LP. Segmentation and stratification of composite portfolios by risk-correlated attributes with positional weighting. View patent.
  • US 9,361,358 (issued Jun. 7, 2016; filed Jul. 17, 2015) — “Syntactic loci and fields in a functional information system”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Harmon Martin Towson Remmel, Jonathan Chandler, James Fifield, Adelaide Fuller, Sean Sandys, Gabriel Marius, Amy Whitaker. Assignee: Locus LP. Functional-coordinate data model organizing entities into syntactic loci and fields within n-dimensional space. View patent.
  • US 9,471,664 (issued Oct. 18, 2016; filed Dec. 13, 2015) — “Syntactic tagging in a domain-specific context”. Inventor: Rory Riggs. Assignee: Locus LP. Continuation of the domain-specific syntax tagging method, linking syntactic tags to stored data entities. View patent.
  • US 9,910,910 (issued Mar. 6, 2018; filed Dec. 13, 2015) — “Syntactic graph modeling in a functional information system”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Jonathan Chandler, Winston Featherly-Bean, James Fifield, Adelaide Fuller, Daniel Goldman, Harmon Martin Towson Remmel. Assignee: Locus LP. Coordinate-based graph modeling of data entities enabling hierarchical, cross-domain comparative analysis. View patent.
  • US 9,990,380 (issued Jun. 5, 2018; filed Apr. 14, 2017) — “Proximity search and navigation for functional information systems”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Elizabeth Bowling, James Breitmeyer, Jonathan Chandler, Vin Harng Chew, Barry Fox, Daniel Goldman, Lauren Hsu, Richard Kahn, Diana McKeage, Sean Sandys, Christopher Silkworth, Amy Whitaker. Applicant: Locus Analytics LLC; Assignee: Locus LP. Proximity-based search and navigation of data in n-dimensional functional space. View patent.
  • US 10,019,509 (issued Jul. 10, 2018; filed Mar. 5, 2018) — “Multi-dimensional modeling in a functional information system”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Jonathan Chandler, Richard Kahn, Ellison Kandler, Harmon Martin Towson Remmel. Assignee: Locus LP. Multi-dimensional modeling in a Functional Information System. View patent.
  • US 10,204,151 (issued Feb. 12, 2019; filed Jun. 10, 2015) — “Syntactic tagging in a domain-specific context”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Peter Beetham, Greg Gocal. Assignee: Locus LP. Continuation of the domain-specific syntax tagging family, with added co-inventors. View patent.
  • US 10,402,379 (issued Sep. 3, 2019; filed Jun. 5, 2018) — “Predictive search and navigation for functional information systems”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Jonathan Chandler, Vin Harng Chew, Winston Featherly-Bean, Adelaide Fuller, Daniel Goldman, Richard Kahn, Harmon Martin Towson Remmel, Sean Sandys, Christopher Silkworth. Assignee: Locus LP. Predictive, proximity-based search and navigation of functional space, extended to gene-sequence recommendation applications. View patent.
  • US 10,515,123 (issued Dec. 24, 2019; filed Jan. 1, 2019) — “Weighted analysis of stratified data entities in a database system”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Ellison Kandler. Assignee: Locus LP. Weighted, tensor-based statistical analysis of stratified data entities for risk-controlled portfolio segmentation and rebalancing. View patent.
  • US 10,545,998 (issued Jan. 28, 2020; filed Dec. 21, 2018) — “Syntactic tagging in a domain-specific context”. Inventor: Rory Riggs. Assignee: Locus LP. Further continuation defining and applying domain-specific syntax tags to data entities. View patent.
  • US 10,599,623 (issued Mar. 24, 2020; filed Aug. 15, 2019) — “Matching multidimensional projections of functional space”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Elizabeth Bowling, Barry Fox, Daniel Goldman, Zachary Hall, Jordan Johnson, Elizabeth Prior, Sean Sandys, Dylan Wengert. Assignee: Locus LP. Algorithmic matching of data entities across n-dimensional functional space, enabling cross-domain comparison via functional coordinates. View patent.
  • US 11,151,096 (issued Oct. 19, 2021; filed Aug. 17, 2020) — “Dynamic syntactic affinity group formation in a high-dimensional functional information system”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Jonathan Chandler, Daniel Goldman, Ellison Kandler, Sean Sandys, Simon Whitten. Assignee: Locus LP. Dynamic formation and ranking of affinity groups based on computed functional trajectories in high-dimensional space. View patent.
  • US 11,227,028 (issued Jan. 18, 2022; filed Aug. 15, 2019) — “Hyperdimensional vector representations for algorithmic functional grouping of complex systems”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Daniel Goldman, Sean Sandys. Assignee: Locus LP. Hyperdimensional vector encoding for algorithmic grouping and periodic rebalancing, applied to risk-stratified portfolio construction. View patent.
  • US 11,657,026 (issued May 23, 2023; filed Mar. 24, 2020) — “Predictive search and navigation for functional information systems”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Elizabeth Bowling, Barry Fox, Daniel Goldman, Zachary Hall, Jordan Johnson, Elizabeth Prior, Sean Sandys, Dylan Wengert. Assignee: Locus LP. Predictive search and navigation of n-dimensional functional space using proximity algorithms. View patent.
  • US 12,189,709 (issued Jan. 7, 2025; filed Jan. 18, 2022) — “Digital platform for trading and management of investment securities”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Jonathan Chandler, Daniel Goldman. Assignee: Locus LP. Digital trading and management platform applying n-dimensional functional tensors to stratify and rebalance investment security portfolios. View patent.
  • US 12,242,431 (issued Mar. 4, 2025; filed May 23, 2023) — “Predictive search and navigation for functional information systems”. Inventors: Rory Riggs, Elizabeth Bowling, Barry Fox, Daniel Goldman, Zachary Hall, Jordan Johnson, Elizabeth Prior, Sean Sandys, Dylan Wengert. Assignee: Locus LP. Algorithmic method for dynamically computing complex relationships in functional systems for search and navigation. View patent.

Other notable filings

Beyond the primary register, Rory Riggs’ name appears on dozens of additional grants, published applications, and continuations spanning the same functional-coordinate and portfolio-stratification inventions, plus at least one earlier, separately-filed index patent. A representative sample:

  • US 8,380,604 (issued 2013; filed 2005) — “System, method and computer program product for using a non-price accounting data based index to determine financial objects to purchase or to sell”. An earlier, separately-filed non-price accounting data index patent predating the Locus LP family. View patent.
  • US 9,098,564 (issued Aug. 4, 2015; filed Jan. 23, 2015) — “Domain-specific syntactic tagging in a functional information system”. Assignee: Locus, LP. Sibling grant to US 8,990,268, issued the same day as US 9,098,878. View patent.
  • US 9,245,299 (2016) — “Segmentation and stratification of composite portfolios of investment securities”. Continuation covering portfolio segmentation and stratification. View patent.
  • US 2025/0209045 (published Jun. 26, 2025; filed Feb. 28, 2025) — “Predictive Search and Navigation for Functional Information Systems”. Pending continuation application, Applicant: Locus LP. View filing.
  • US 2025/0148047 (published May 8, 2025; filed Jan. 7, 2025) — “Digital Platform for Trading and Management of Investment Securities”. Pending continuation application, Applicant: Locus LP. View filing.
  • US 2014/0280246 (published Sep. 18, 2014; filed Mar. 17, 2014) — “Domain-Specific Syntax Tagging in a Functional Information System”. Applicant: Locus Analytics, LLC — the earliest published application in the family, predating the Locus LP assignments. View filing.

Master index: Justia — complete Rory Riggs patent inventory.

The commercial applications built on this patent family are described on Applications, including the Syntax Stratified Indices and the Rapid Trait Development System®.

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