ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,686, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Updating attribute data structures to indicate trends in attribute data provided to automated modelling systems" was invented by Jeffrey Q. Ouyang (Atlanta), Vickey Chang (Suwanee, Ga.), Rupesh Patel (Atlanta) and Trevis J. Litherland (Alpharetta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects involve updating data structures to indicate relationships between attribute trends and response variables used for training automated modeling systems. For example, a data structure stores data for training an automated modeling algorithm. The training data includes attribu...