ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,967, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to The Strategic Coach Inc. (Toronto).

"Apparatus and methods for high-order system growth modeling" was invented by Barbara Sue Smith (Toronto) and Daniel J. Sullivan (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for high-order modeling of a system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises at least a computing device to receive a plurality of system data, determine at least a current rate of growth for a plurality of categories of system data, generate at least a second-order model of the projected growth, identify at least a decrease in the second-order model for projected growth, ...