ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,551, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Xerox Corp. (Webster, N.Y.).
"Computer-implemented system and method for predicting activity outcome" was invented by Shane Ahern (Foster City, Calif.), Michael Roberts (Los Gatos, Calif.) and Simon Tucker (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method for predicting activity outcome is provided. A set of outcome models is maintained. Contextual data of a user is collected via one or more computing devices associated with the user. An activity being performed by the user is determined based on the contextual data. The activity is compared to a set of ou...