ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,144, issued on April 29, was assigned to AMPLITUDE INC. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning system to predict causal treatment effects of actions performed on websites or applications" was invented by Scott Kramer (New York City, N.Y.), Cynthia Rogers (Palo Alto, Calif.), Eric Pollmann (Los Altos, Calif.) and Muhammad Bilal Mahmood (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for computing a causal uplift in performance of an output action for one or more treatment actions in parallel are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer receives interaction data for a particular period of time which identifies...