ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,763, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System and method to optimize processing pipeline for key performance indicators" was invented by Srinivasan S. Muthuswamy (Bangalore, India), Mukesh Kumar (Bangalore, India), Willie Robert Patten Jr. (Hurdle Mills, N.C.) and Subhendu Das (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system, platform, computer program product, and/or method for optimizing a data analytics suspicious activity detection pipeline that includes identifying a data analytics suspicious activity detection (SAD) pipeline for optimization;...