ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,569, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to The University Of North Carolina At Charlotte (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Computer implemented method and system for integrative causal modeling and transfer" was invented by Wlodek Zadrozny (Charlotte, N.C.), Wenwen Dou (Charlotte, N.C.), Victor Zitian Chen (Charlotte, N.C.) and Seethalakshmi Gopalakrishnan (Charlotte, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hypergraph user interface for interaction with a system for integrative causal modeling from natural language text and including a natural language text input element configured to receive a designation of a natural language text file or such a fi...