ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,836, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Impact score for ontology changes" was invented by Oliver Suhre (Stuttgart, Germany), Thomas Hampp-Bahnmueller (Stuttgart, Germany), Peter Gerstl (Holzgerlingen, Germany), Yannick Saillet (Stuttgart, Germany), Albert Maier (Tuebingen, Germany) and Michael Baessler (Bempflingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are techniques for a re-analysis of assignments of terms to assets. The techniques include detecting a change in a term ontology comprising a plurality of terms, and determining at least one selected from a group consi...