ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,785, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Completion of data gaps in a dataset" was invented by Min Cheng (Beijing), Bo Chen Zhu (Xi'an, China), Mai Zeng (Beijing) and Al Chakra (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Completion of data gaps in a dataset is provided and includes retrieving first input data that includes one or more metrics associated with one or more user devices. One or more rules are applied to the first input data and the first input data is classified into a set of groups based on the application of the one or more rules. A presence of a first multiplicative...