ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,210, issued on July 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Impact function generator for geospatial climate hazards" was invented by Julian Bertram Kuehnert (Nairobi, Kenya), Mohamed Akram Zaytar (Nairobi, Kenya), Anne Jones (Rainford, Great Britain) and Blair Nicholas Victor Edwards (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for generating impact functions for geospatial climate hazards based on user interactions. The embodiment may receive input data associated with a target geospatial climate hazard and a corresponding asset, the input data including one or more of a...