ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,441, issued on June 23, was assigned to BULL SAS (Les Clayes-Sous-Bois, France).

"Method and system for identifying relevant variables" was invented by Kaoutar Sghiouer (Compiegne, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for identifying variables relevant to a dataset, said variables being derived from a plurality of variables involved in processing the dataset, said method comprising: a step of generating a subset of variables from the plurality of variables, a step of assigning a quantization value to each variable of the generated subset of variables, a step of selecting a relevant variable, a furth...