US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 7 for "Black-box explainer for time series forecasting" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,942, issued on April 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Black-box explainer for time series forecasting" was invented by Vikas C. Raykar (Bangalore, India), Sumanta Mukherjee (Bangalore, India), Nupur Aggarwal (Bangalore, India), Bhanukiran Vinzamuri (Long Island City, N.Y.) and Arindam Jati (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system, and computer program product for an interpretable, feature-based post-hoc black box explainer for univariate time series forecasters are provided. The method receives a set of time series forecasting predictions. The set of time series foreca...