US Patent Issued to C3.ai on Sept. 1 for "Predictive segmentation of energy customers" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,211, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to C3.ai Inc. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Predictive segmentation of energy customers" was invented by Adrian Albert (San Francisco) and Mehdi Maasoumy Haghighi (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system receives customer records listing customer attributes and an adoption status of the customer, such as whether the customer has enrolled in a particular energy efficiency program. An initial set of patterns are identified among the customer records, such as according to a decision tree. The initial set is pruned to obtain a set of patterns that meet minimum support and effe...