US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Determining impacts of work items on repositories" (Illinois, North Carolina, Virginia, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,020, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Determining impacts of work items on repositories" was invented by Thomas Kenneth Monson (Chicago), Hitheshwar Peddamekala (Glen Allen, Va.), Evelio Sosa (Raleigh, N.C.), Emily Otero (Durham, N.C.) and Keith Gregory Frost (Delaware, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving a new work item, and extracting topics from the new work item. A trained machine learning model is used to determine a first set of values representing correlation strengths between the new work it...