ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,554, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ACCENTURE GLOBAL SOLUTIONS Ltd. (Dublin).

"Complex system for end-to-end causal inference" was invented by Mohamad Mehdi Nasr-Azadani (San Francisco), Rachael Victoria Phillips (Berkeley, Calif.) and Teresa Sheausan Tung (Tustin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A causal inference stack implements a targeted maximum likelihood scheme to conduct causal analysis of the observational data. At a data-handling layer, the causal inference stack obtains one or more memory locations for a dataset and establishes analysis nodes to setup localized data handling for the memory locations. At a data cl...