ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,936, issued on May 5, was assigned to VelocityEHS Holdings Inc. (Chicago).

"Automatic root cause and corrective action identification system and method based on incident records" was invented by Julia Penfield (Seattle), Pulkit Trushantkumar Parikh (Ontario, Canada), Marc L. Juaire (Plymouth, Minn.) and Dana C. Garber (Katy, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a machine learning based system and method for root cause identification and corrective action recommendation to address various workplace incidents. An example system may include a computing device configured to formulate a root cause superset to represent a...