ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,422, issued on June 30, was assigned to BlackRock Finance Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for building a prediction model with varying levels of data availability" was invented by Argyro Tasitsiomi (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products described herein for building a prediction model with varying availability. Embodiments described herein build a prediction model that is initially trained with a selected subset of data characteristics (e.g., data characteristics that are commonly available in training data), and then augmented via Bayesian estimation with additional data charac...