ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,503, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Methods and systems for estimating causal effects from knowledge graphs" was invented by Rory McGrath (County Kildare, Ireland), Luca Costabello (Newbridge, Ireland) and Christophe Gueret (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for estimating causal effects from knowledge graphs are provided. The method includes obtaining intervention application data and subject history data for a candidate group of subjects, and dividing, based on the intervention application data, the candidate group into a reception subgroup that received an inte...