ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,361, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generation of reasoning for asset rankings" was invented by Aaron K. Baughman (Research Triangle Park, N.C.), Eduardo Morales (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Rahul Agarwal (New York) and Chandankumar Johakhim Patel (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of executing queries on one or more external data stores to retrieve domain data of one or more ranked lists of assets and variables corresponding to the domain data, generating a plurality of feature groups based on the retrieved domain data an...