ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,711, issued on April 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Third party vendor fraud risk assessment using shapley additive explanations for value attribution" was invented by Krishna Ravali Jammalamadaka (Bengaluru, India), Sivaram Lakshminarayanan (Bangalore, India) and Srivats Athindran (Chennai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing value attribution for a data system includes obtaining, by the data system, order data associated with a plurality of data vendors, wherein the order data comprises variables about client devices, in response to obtaining the order data: applying the variables...