US Patent Issued to MFTB Holdco on July 14 for "Enforcing, with respect to changes in one or more distinguished independent variable values, monotonicity in the predictions produced by a statistical model" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,288, issued on July 14, was assigned to MFTB Holdco Inc. (Seattle).

"Enforcing, with respect to changes in one or more distinguished independent variable values, monotonicity in the predictions produced by a statistical model" was invented by Andrew Bruce (Seattle), Chunyi Wang (Seattle), Yeng Bun (Seattle) and Andrew Martin (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A facility for estimating a value relating to a occurrence is described. The facility receives a first occurrence that specifies a plurality of independent variables including a distinguished independent variable designated to be monotonically linked to a dependent variable...