ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,598, issued on June 23, was assigned to Moat Metrics Inc. (Spokane, Wash.).

"Intellectual property model parameter training and utilization" was invented by Poh C. Chua (Fairfax, Va.), Lewis C. Lee (Seattle), Daniel Crouse (Seattle) and Rohitasva Dutta (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for intellectual property model parameter training and utilization are disclosed. For example, intellectual property assets are analyzed quickly and based on parsed data from multiple disparate datasets to generate quality scores. The quality scores are then utilized for multiple purposes, including determining financing amou...