ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,066, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Visa International Service Association (San Francisco).

"Time series predictive model for estimating metric for a given entity" was invented by Michael Yeh (Newark, Calif.), Zhongfang Zhuang (Mountain View, Calif.), Junpeng Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yan Zheng (Los Gatos, Calif.), Javid Ebrahimi (San Francisco), Liang Wang (San Jose, Calif.) and Wei Zhang (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by a computer is disclosed. The method comprises receiving interaction data between electronic devices of a plurality of entities. The interaction data is used to form an enti...