ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,175, issued on May 19, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Stochastic risk scoring with counterfactual analysis for storage capacity" was invented by Bing Liu (Tianjin, China) and Rahul Deo Vishwakarma (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes accessing a dataset, selecting a list of parameters of the dataset, each of the parameters being selected based on a determination that the parameter is affecting a size of the dataset and/or affecting an amount of data storage space consumed by the dataset, performing a counterfactual analysis using the parameters, and using results of th...