ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,199, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to ServiceNow Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Smart persistence of model for effective predictions and updates" was invented by Sriram Puttagunta (Hyderabad, India), Jishnu Sethumadhavan Nair (Hyderabad, India), Bidyapati Pradhan (Hyderabad, India), Nirali Dineshbhai Popat (Hyderabad, India), Sravan Ramachandran (Hyderabad, India), Vipul Mittal (Hyderabad, India), Seganrasan Subramanian (Hyderabad, India) and Ranga Prasad Chenna (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to identify a data cluster for an input data record based on a spatial distance to a representative subse...