ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,204, issued on July 22, was assigned to NIKE Inc. (Beaverton, Ore.).
"Event prediction" was invented by Ying-zong Huang (Seattle), Vishal Doshi (Somerville, Mass.), Balaji Rengarajan (Beaverton, Ore.), Vasudha Shivamoggi (Boston), Devavrat Shah (Waban, Mass.) and Ritesh Madan (Berkeley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented prediction methods, in accordance with various embodiments, involve storing key-value pairs each including a key tuple and an associated value in a data store, building a prediction model associated with at least a subset of the key-value pairs, and in response to receipt of a prediction query...