ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,751, issued on July 7, was assigned to NEC Corp. (Tokyo).

"Method for decision-making regarding a decision in an environment by means of a data processing system and a corresponding data processing system" was invented by Julia Gastinger (Heidelberg, Germany) and Timo Sztyler (Heidelberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for decision-making regarding a decision in an environment by a data processing system in view of multiple different objectives includes: collecting information within the environment, describing the information in at least one temporal knowledge graph (TKG), forecasting a future development of one futu...