ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,836, issued on March 31, was assigned to MasterCard International Inc. (New York).

"Computer-implemented method and system for testing a model" was invented by James Conway (Dublin) and Quentin Bragard (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for testing a model indicating a parametric relationship between a plurality of channels of multivariate data, the method comprising: obtaining a real dataset of observed multivariate data comprising the plurality of channels; generating a control dataset of multivariate data comprising the plurality of channels, the control dataset being generated based on the model...