ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,856, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Kobai Inc. (Pleasanton, Calif.).

"Decision intelligence system and method" was invented by Parag Goradia (San Ramon, Calif.), Ryan Andrew Oattes (Burlington, Canada), Lakshmi Prasad Reddy Nanga (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Luis Antonio Monterrubio Ruiz (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A decision intelligence system permits a data expert to input information to define business questions and a business knowledge model. A semantic ontology is generated from the business knowledge model. The business knowledge model is mapped to data sources and used to generate information for genera...