ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,444, 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: "Predicting a change in a business workflow performance measure includes a measure factory rule produced outlier detecting step, a difference-over-time outlier contributing data element determining step, a different business workflow performance measure identifying step for the contributing data element, an outlier prediction step for the different business workflow performance measure as derived from the contributing data element, and a step for alerting a user when the predic...