ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,409, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining and selecting prediction models over multiple points in time using test data" was invented by Arun Kwangil Iyengar (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Jeffrey Owen Kephart (Corlandt Manor, N.Y.), Dhavalkumar C. Patel (White Plains, N.Y.), Dung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.) and Chandrasekhara K. Reddy (Kinnelon, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for model evaluation and selection are provided. A plurality of models trained to generate predictions at each of a plurality of intervals is received, and a plurality of model ens...