ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,375, issued on July 21, was assigned to NEWSOUTH INNOVATIONS PTY Ltd. (Sydney).

"Methods, systems, devices and neural networks for forecasting a time series" was invented by Flora D. Salim (New South Wales, Australia) and Hao Xue (New South Wales, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, devices, and neural networks are for forecasting a time series. According to one example, a natural language processing engine receives input natural language describing historical data of a time series and, based on the input natural language, generates output natural language which describes a forecast for the time series."

The p...