US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 24 for "Machine learning based event monitoring" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,587,456, issued on March 24, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Machine learning based event monitoring" was invented by Madeleine Frost (Morden, Great Britain), Luke Taher (Heswall, Great Britain), Shazia Jamil Kayani (Birmingham, Great Britain) and Matas Bartosevicius (Chatham, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer hardware and/or software that performs the following operations: (i) identifying rules for relating events in an event monitoring system; (ii) determining an event window having a set of related events within a particular time window, based, at least in part, on the rules;...