ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,904, issued on June 17.

"Method and system for analyzing a data set based on ranking of observations" was invented by Josh Shapiro (Smyrna, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for analysing a data set based on ranking of observations is disclosed. The method includes uploading the data set by a user and selecting one or more significant variables in the data set that interests the user and represents a priority & focus of a study. The method further includes automatically selecting an appropriate statistical technique based on the type of the variable for performing a correlation analysis for measuring an interdepe...