ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,956, issued on March 11, was assigned to Accenture Global Solutions Ltd. (Dublin).

"Utilizing machine learning models for data-driven customer segmentation" was invented by Luca Costabello (Newbridge, Ireland), Sumit Pai (Dublin), Fiona Brennan (Dublin) and Adrianna Janik (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device may receive purchase data identifying purchases by users of user devices and identifying non-temporal data associated with the users, and may preprocess the purchase data to generate sequences of multivariate and multimodal symbols. The device may process the sequences of multivariate and multimodal symbols, with a lo...