US Patent Issued on July 22 for "Assisted analytics" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,445, issued on July 22.

"Assisted analytics" was invented by Frederick A Powers (Sudbury, Mass.) and James Clark (Andover, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting a source of a change in a business performance measure includes a first measure outlier event detection step, an outlier event contributor determining step, an outlier event source data entry identification step based on an execution dependency graph, and a step of alerting a user of a business activity represented by data entries in the outlier event source data."

The patent was filed on Oct. 20, 2024, under Application No. 18/920,922.

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