US Patent Issued on Sept. 23 for "Trend prediction" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,719, issued on Sept. 23.

"Trend prediction" was invented by Martin A. Alpert (Beachwood, Ohio), Bradley H. Owen (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) and Derek S.M. Rymers (Westerville, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Predicting trends may include obtaining trend data from one or more sources, extracting a plurality of trends from the trend data, and producing permutations combining terms or concepts appearing in the plurality of trends to create trend candidates. A first term from a first trend or concept in the plurality of trends may be combined with a second term or concept from a second trend in the plurality of trends."

The patent was fi...