ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,400,077, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to TOYOTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC. (Los Altos, Calif.).
"System and method for improving understanding and decision making regarding statistical data" was invented by Shabnam Hakimi (San Francisco), Charlene C. Wu (San Francisco), Matthew Len Lee (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nikos Arechiga (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for statistical data clarification is described. The method includes determining a relevance of statistical data according to a textual context of a statistical data detected within a document viewed by a user. The method also includes establishing a frame...