ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,934, issued on March 25, was assigned to 6SENSE INSIGHTS INC. (San Francisco).

"Machine-learning-aided automatic taxonomy for web data" was invented by Rohit Kewalramani (Pune, India) and Justin Chien (Campbell, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Machine-learning-aided automatic taxonomy for web data. In an embodiment, a training dataset of annotated features is used to train a model to predict a class in a taxonomy of web-based activities. The features may be derived from a uniform resource locator (URL) of an online resource and associated metadata. During operation, the features may be extracted from the URL and metadata of ea...