ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,827, issued on April 8, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Computer prediction of relevant data from multiple disparate sources" was invented by Yair Horesh (Kfar Sava, Israel), Alexander Zhicharevich (Petah Tikva, Israel), Shlomi Medalion (Lod, Israel) and Natalie Bar Eliyahu (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including extracting data from disparate data sources. The data includes data pairs including a corresponding data point and a corresponding time associated with the corresponding data point. The method also includes extracting insights from the data at least by identifying a trend in ...