ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,763, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Smart Information Flow Technologies LLC (Minneapolis).

"Computer architecture for prediction using consistency rules" was invented by Christopher William Geib (Minneapolis), Scott Ehrlich Friedman (Minneapolis), Pavan Kantharaju (Medford, Mass.) and Robert Prescott Goldman (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer receives a plurality of observations. The computer generates an observation data structure, where the observation data structure represents at least one of causal structures or hierarchical relationships between the plurality of observations. The computer extends, in acco...