ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,691, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Optios Inc. (Greenville, S.C.).

"Optimization of trading performance using both brain state models and operational performance models" was invented by Paul Sajda (New York), Jacek Dmochowski (Montclair, N.J.), Pawel Gucik (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ben Londergan (Chicago), Paul DeGuzman (Valley Cottage, N.Y.) and Sam DeWitt (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes generating a trading performance model for a trading activity involving a set of decisions by a set of expert traders. The trading performance model includes a set of input data sets, a set of data processing workflows operat...