US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 21 for "Determination of support costs for a scheduled release of a product" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,722, issued on April 21, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determination of support costs for a scheduled release of a product" was invented by William Chatham (Dublin), David O'Grady (Maynooth, Ireland), Paul John Ellis (Blackrock, Ireland), Garima Verma (Lucan, Ireland) and John Carolan (Arklow, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (CIM), according to one embodiment, includes building a first support profile for a first predetermined product that is scheduled to be released. The first support profile is based on historical data of predetermined types. The CIM fur...