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Aha Analytics Software LLC

Bruce Allen Bacon

Mark Teflian

Robert Craig Murphy

Peter T Gallanis

A commercial process with a dependent variable can be associated with a set of independent variables. The commercial process can continuously provide data collection opportunities. An intervention is designed using a model to predict the dependent outcome. The actual outcome of the intervention can be determined within the window of utility for these data. One objective is to improve intervention outcomes with prediction. Purely random outcomes (no model prediction) and outcomes resulting from the intervention (model operations) are aggregated into separate files&#x2014;a sequence of control model data files and a sequence of model data files of operational data. These model data files and control model data files are used to analyze model performance and to react automatically when identified conditions warrant.

Dynamic model data facility and automated operational model building and usage

An apparatus having a reservoir storing a marking medium, a nib receiving the marking medium for transfer to the surface to be marked, and a guide to locate the strand to be marked in the proper orientation and against the nib. In a method of marking, strands of material are drawn through the guide and over the nib. The marking medium can be a select color for each individual strand to be marked. The reservoir and nib can be combined as part of a single unitary piece or marking element. The marker includes a marker barrel housing the reservoir and nib. The guide can be part of the marker barrel or nib. The marker barrel can be the same color as the marking medium or can have a select pattern for a select color of marking medium. The nib has a marking point extending from the marking barrel. The apparatus includes a removable cap which covers the exposed areas of the nib. The apparatus also includes a means for determining the level of marking medium in the reservoir and a means for replenishing the marking medium in the reservoir.

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Castle Rock, CO, United States of America

Bruce Allen Bacon