ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,144, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to PEARSON EDUCATION INC. (Bloomington, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for automated feature-based risk analysis" was invented by Stephen Carroll (San Anselmo, Calif.), David Lovejoy (Parker, Colo.), Simcha Knif (Montara, Calif.) and Gennadiy Kukartsev (Highland Ranch, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for feature-based alert triggering are disclosed herein. The system can include memory including a model database containing a machine-learning algorithm. The system can include a user device that can receive inputs from a user; and at least one server. The at least one server ...