ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. RE50,491, issued on July 15, was assigned to APPLIED PREDICTIVE TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Arlington, Va.).

"Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture for determining optimal parameter settings for business initiative testing models" was invented by Anthony Dean Bruce (Chevy Chase, Md.), Corey Christian Vaudo (Vienna, Va.), Dacheng Zhao (San Francisco) and Mark James D'Agostino (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and article of manufacture is disclosed for determining optimal parameter settings for a business initiative testing model used for testing initiatives for business locations included in a business network. In ...