ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,376, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to CLARI INC. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Method and system for determining behavioral patterns of user groups based on interactions with other user groups using machine learning" was invented by Venkat Rangan (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes a method of generating a target profile including the target's sequence of events (SOE) for a task. Such target profile sequence of events is derived from several source group's transactions, where any source group's transactions cannot be shared with other source groups but the derived target group's profile is the only in...