ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,684, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Assessing a treatment service based on a measure of trust dynamics" was invented by James R. Kozloski (New Fairfield, Conn.), Sara Berger (White Plains, N.Y.), Anup Kalia (Elmsford, N.Y.) and Jeffrey L. Rogers (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques regarding autonomously determining an entity's susceptibility towards one or more treatment services are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a system, which can comprise a memory that can store computer executable components. The...