ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,940, issued on March 4, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).
"Dynamic simulation analytics" was invented by John Clare Brocklebank (Franklin, Tenn.), Ann L. Cutrell (Durham, N.C.), Savera Tanwir (Morrisville, N.C.) and William Cyrus Bradford (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device obtains a computer model that predicts a predicted output for a studied system. The device obtains an initial predicted state for an applied system according to initial inputs to the computer model. The device receives a request for derived inputs that will generate, for the applied system, a user-requested change in the ...