ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,879, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Modification and generation of conditional data" was invented by Andrea Giovannini (Zurich), Frederik Frank Flother (Schlieren, Switzerland), Patrick Lustenberger (Herrliberg, Switzerland) and David Ocheltree (Peachtree City, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor may gather raw data comprising a plurality of characteristic data samples of a target user group. The processor may categorize the characteristic data samples into a plurality of user-related classes and triggers. The processor may build an input property graph for each ch...