US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 15 for "Data driven ranking of competing entities in a marketplace" (New York, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,642, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data driven ranking of competing entities in a marketplace" was invented by Jonathan M. Smith (White Plains, N.Y.), Sheema Usmani (White Plains, N.Y.), Alexander Shypula (New York), Phillip Werner Simplicio (West Hartford, Conn.), Biplav Srivastava (Rye, N.Y.) and Amir Sabet Sarvestani (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product for competitive analysis is provided. The present invention may include identifying one or more potential competitors by searching a knowledge corpus using on...