ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,141, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for predicting the effect of an intervention via machine learning" was invented by Totte Harinen (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to predicting the effect of an intervention via machine learning. One embodiment divides a plurality of units into first and second intervention groups that receive first and second interventions, respectively; identifies, for each unit, k nearest-neighbor units in each of the first and second intervention groups; calculates, for each ...