ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,505, issued on July 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Model exploration for grouped datasets" was invented by Dhavalkumar C. Patel (White Plains, N.Y.), Jayant R. Kalagnanam (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), Robert Jeffrey Baseman (Brewster, N.Y.), Chandrasekhara K. Reddy (Kinnelon, N.J.), Fateh A. Tipu (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Dung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.) and Nam H. Nguyen (Pleasantville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment includes creating, by a system, a first dataset and a second dataset from a group of datasets by performing a skyline operation of a feature extracted from th...