ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,511, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Missing pattern generation in a data simulation system" was invented by Xue Ying Zhang (Xi'an, China), Jing James Xu (Xi'an, China), Si Er Han (Xi'an, China), Xiao Ming Ma (Xi'an, China), Wen Pei Yu (Xi'an, China) and Jing Xu (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and computer program products for generating data according to patterns of missing data. A method for automatically identifying patterns of missing data and generating data accordingly may comprise reading a plurality of values, each associated a subject and ...