ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,052, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Stable prescriptive policy construction" was invented by Wei Sun (Scarsdale, N.Y.), Shivaram Subramanian (Frisco, Texas), Youssef Drissi (Peekskill, N.Y.) and Markus Ettl (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes identifying, by one or more processors, a decision tree corresponding to an artificial intelligence model, detecting, by one or more processors, new data associated with an update to the identified decision tree, identifying, by one or more processors, counterfactual data correspo...