ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,857, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Predicting matching density with structural causal model" was invented by Hua Li (Bellevue, Wash.), Amit Sharma (Bengaluru, India), Jian Jiao (Bellevue, Wash.) and Ruofei Zhang (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device including a processor configured to receive data indicating, for a query category within a sampled time period, a matching density defined as a number of matches per query. The processor may generate a structural causal model (SCM) of the data within the sampled time period. The SCM may include a...