ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,013, issued on May 13, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Predicting outlier data from network of electronic data" was invented by Srinivasan S. Muthuswamy (Bangalore, India), Vrunda Ravindra Negandhi (Pune, India), Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India) and Sudheesh S. Kairali (Kozhikode, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and/or computing system for determining unexpected data includes: running for a given claim a machine learning term prediction model with first and second term types to predict third type terms in a specific domain that us...