ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,967, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using negative evidence to predict event datasets" was invented by Dharmashankar Subramanian (White Plains, N.Y.), Tian Gao (Berkeley Heights, N.J.), Karthikeyan Shanmugam (Elmsford, N.Y.), Debarun Bhattacharjya (New York) and Nicholas Scott Mattei (New Orleans).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method is presented for learning relationships between multiple event types by employing a multi-channel neural graphical event model (MCN-GEM). The method includes receiving, by a computing device, time-stamped, asynchronous, irr...