ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,113, issued on March 3.

"Systems and methods for measuring relationships between investments and other variables" was invented by Sander Gerber (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The systems and methods described herein can identify meaningful relationships between variables, such as particular investments or general asset classes. Unlike conventional correlation analysis, these systems and methods provide an improved technique of co-movement analysis that implements a threshold to eliminate data "noise" and then discretizes the remaining observations to normalize any outliers. Such co-movement analysis has numerous advantages ...