ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,889, issued on March 11, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Stochastic risk scoring with counterfactual analysis for storage capacity" was invented by Rahul Deo Vishwakarma (Kolkata, India), Bing Liu (Tianjin, China) and Parmeshwr Prasad (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes accessing a dataset, selecting a list of attributes of the dataset, each of the attributes being selected based on a determination that the attribute is affecting growth of the dataset and affecting an amount of data storage space consumed by the dataset, assigning a SHAP score to each attribute, us...