ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,976, issued on March 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Machine learning system for forecasting customer demand" was invented by Kumar Alagappan (Bangalore, India), Pradeep Kumar Venkataramu (Bangalore, India), Aswinraj Govindaraj (Bangalore, India), Sandy Ono (San Jose, Calif.), Shambhu Kumar (Bangalore, India), Ashis Mondal (Bangalore, India) and Palani Balasundaram (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure includes a system and methods of generating a forecast index based on customer digital intent data. The methods include generating a plurality of prediction model...