ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,304, issued on July 14, was assigned to Atlas AI P.B.C. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Computer system with economic development decision support platform and method of use thereof" was invented by David Lobell (Stanford, Calif.), Marshall Burke (Menlo Park, Calif.), Stefano Ermon (Menlo Park, Calif.), George Azzari (Ladera Ranch, Calif.), Abraham Tarapani (San Rafael, Calif.), Anthony Perez (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Gabriel Cadamuro (Vancouver, Canada), Sarah Ciresi (Seattle) and Deven Desai (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides computer-implemented systems, platforms and methods that support decisions rel...