ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,242, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Ranking cross-disorder features in multiway data interactions" was invented by Aritra Bose (Astoria, N.Y.), Filippo Utro (Pleasantville, N.Y.), Myson Burch (West Harrison, N.Y.) and Laxmi Parida (Mohegan Lake, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method includes receiving at a processor an input set of multiway data. The method determines a set of persistent homology barcodes based on the multiway data and identifies at least a first significant persistent homology barcode in the set of persistent homology barcodes. A ...