ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,961, issued on June 2, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Constrained decision-making and explanation of a recommendation" was invented by Avinash Balakrishnan (Elmsford, N.Y.), Djallel Bouneffouf (Wappinger Falls, N.Y.), Nicholas Mattei (White Plains, N.Y.) and Francesca Rossi (Chappaqua, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate constrained decision-making and explanation of a recommendation are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor ...