ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,880, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generating change request classification explanations" was invented by Raghav Batta (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Elton Nidd (Zurich), Larisa Shwartz (Greenwich, Conn.), Pritam Gundecha (San Jose, Calif.), Rama Kalyani T. Akkiraju (Cupertino, Calif.), Amar Prakash Azad (Bangalore, India) and Harshit Kumar (Delhi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for generating actionable explanations of change request classifications may be presented. A model may generate features associated with a change request may be disclosed. The model ma...