ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,963, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for quality prediction" was invented by Evan Hann (Oxford, Great Britain), Stefan Piechnik (Oxford, Great Britain), Iulia Andreia Popescu (Oxford, Great Britain), Qiang Zhang (Oxford, Great Britain), Konrad Werys (Oxford, Great Britain) and Vanessa Ferreira (Oxford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of selecting an operation for analysis of data, the method comprising: processing the data using at least two operations, wherein each of the at least two operations are different, to obtain a set of...