ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,141, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Identification of similar incidents based on similarity scores" was invented by Shany Klein Antman (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ely Abramovitch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Hani Hana Neuvirth (Tel Aviv, Israel), Diana Attar-Sityon (Ganey-Tikva, Israel) and Moshe Israel (Ramat Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that, when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to receive event data for a subject incident. The processor ...