ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,905, issued on May 27, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Predictive computing and data analytics for project management" was invented by Gabriele Picco (Dublin), Natalia Mulligan (Dublin), Thanh Lam Hoang (Maynooth, Ireland) and Marco Luca Sbodio (Castaheany, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are provided for providing predictive computing and data analytics for project management in a computing system by a processor. A lifecycle of each of a plurality of objects may be monitored based on data received from a plurality of data sources. Predictive analytics for project management o...