ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,400, issued on April 8, was assigned to KEEP COMPANY INC. (Bethesda, Md.).

"Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for quantitatively grouping using computational clustering" was invented by Adrienne Prentice (Bethesda, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for quantitatively grouping a set of persons into a plurality of groups of three or more persons using computational clustering, the method including storing a set of data objects corresponding to the set of persons, storing a plurality of attributes corresponding to each data object in the set of data objects, generating a p...