ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,936, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Ankura Consulting Group LLC (New York).

"Configurable, streaming hybrid-analytics platform" was invented by William Flanagan (Eastville, Va.), Michael H. Cahill (Ashton, Md.), Jesse A. Bowes (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Barbara A. Flanagan (Eastville, Va.) and Robyn Todd (Herndon, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An analytics platform for the extraction of structured observations from largely narrative sources using a hybrid approach of user configuration and machine learning is provided. The analytics platform collects and normalizes data from public and private sources and applies extractions t...