ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,288,138, issued on April 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Explanation for time series forecasting models" was invented by Diptikalyan Saha (Bangalore, India), Philips George John (Kottayam, India) and Vitobha Munigala (Secunderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for explaining predictions made by black box time series models. The method may include identifying a black box time series model. The method may also include predicting one or more time instances using the black box time series model. The method may also include selecting a predicted t...