ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,158, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data-driven decision enhancement" was invented by Arpita Girish Gudihal (Pune, India), Venkata Vara Prasad Karri (Visakhapatnam, India), Akash U. Dhoot (Pune, India) and Shailendra Moyal (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Enhancing data-driven decision making can include generating a contextual insight data structure using a first artificial intelligence system operating on information data structures selected based on a context of a programmatically defined action. A perception data structure can be generated using a second artif...