ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,787, issued on March 31, was assigned to United Services Automobile Association (USAA) (San Antonio).

"Forecasting events by modeling time series data" was invented by Austin Jenkins (Phoenix), Matthew Christopher Kaplan (San Antonio) and Conor Wroble (Surprise, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An event forecasting system can filer time series data by identifying outliers and/or data instances that align with an exception, and either remove or replace them. The event forecasting system can further select a set of models expected to be best predictive for the time series data by performing an initial ranking using a first part of...