ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,986, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SAS INSTITUTE INC. (Cary, N.C.).
"Systems, methods, and graphical user interfaces for predicting and analyzing action likelihood" was invented by Teresa S. Jade (Cary, N.C.), Julia Moreno (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Ashley Mary Beck (Lanark, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-program product obtains a text document that includes text describing an action. The computer-program product extracts one or more action tokens from the text document. The computer-program product executes a plurality of linguistic pattern searches that search the text document for one or more likeliho...