US Patent Issued to Iron Mountain on April 7 for "Predictive multidimensional search and selection tool" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,718, issued on April 7, was assigned to Iron Mountain Inc. (Portsmouth, N.H.).

"Predictive multidimensional search and selection tool" was invented by Lucy T. Yan (Boston) and Nicole C. Reineke (Northborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Predictive Multidimensional Search and Selection Tool (PMST) allows users to leverage publicly available historic and predictive data in decision-making processes such as searches and queries, particularly (but not limited to) decision-making processes relating to location- and time-based decisions such as, for example, where and when to locate, relocate, or take other action for habitation...