ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,452,626, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Machine learning model prediction of an opportunity for an entity category in a geographic area" was invented by Rosa Milani (Wynnewood, Pa.), Michael Mossoba (Great Falls, Va.) and Joshua Edwards (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a device may obtain event data relating to events involving one or more entities and one or more individuals, where the one or more entities are associated with entity categories. The device may determine, based on origin locations of the one or more individuals and locations of the one or mo...