ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,747, issued on April 21, was assigned to Better Holdco Inc. (New York).

"Condition tree optimization" was invented by Juliette Rembrandt Klingsberg (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Sam Arthur Ross (Princeton, N.J.) and Hanson Yu (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to condition tree optimization techniques. In examples, a condition tree is comprised of rules and associated logical operators. The condition tree is used to process a set of variables, thereby generating an evaluation result. In some instances, multiple evaluations are performed, for example to identify variables that affect the evaluation ...