US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 23 for "Multi-locational forecast modeling in both temporal and spatial dimensions" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,487, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Multi-locational forecast modeling in both temporal and spatial dimensions" was invented by Zhengliang Xue (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Bhavna Agrawal (Armonk, N.Y.), Anuradha Bhamidipaty (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Yingjie Li (Chappaqua, N.Y.) and Shuxin Lin (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Temporal and spatially integrated forecast modeling includes generating a plurality of forecast models for a plurality of short-term to long-term time periods for a plurality of locations. Temporally integrating the plurality of forecast ...