ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,972, issued on July 15, was assigned to KPMG Accountants N.V. (Amstelveen, Netherlands).
"Method for assurance score determination on data sets" was invented by Lucas Arnoldus Hoogduin (Amstelveen, Netherlands) and Marcel Boersma (Amstelveen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for determining a value assurance score for an investigated parameter in an application by means of an assurance determination model, in large data sets, in particular in such application contexts as financial record keeping (auditing). The methods are computer-implemented and involves establishing one or more inter-parameter correlations betwee...