ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,118, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Private computation of an agent data attribution score in collaborated task" was invented by Supriyo Chakraborty (White Plains, N.Y.), Ashish Verma (Nanuet, N.Y.) and Dinesh C. Verma (New Castle, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method of determining an agent data attribution and selection to perform a collaborative data-related task includes computing an agent data attribution score for each agent of the plurality of agents associated with the collaborative data-related task. A subset of the plurality of agents t...