ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,691, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Smart Software Inc. (Belmont, Mass.).

"Automated system control with data analytics using doubly stochastic model" was invented by Brock Estel Osborn (Huntersville, N.C.), Thomas Reed Willemain (Niskayuna, N.Y.) and Nelson Seth Hartunian (Belmont, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for controlling an automated process based on a time series of count data. The approach includes characterizing an observed time series of counts by modeling the underlying dynamics that give rise to the observed data, including evaluating the time series with a driver estimation process, wherei...