ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,530, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Synthetic data generation and machine learning model testing" was invented by Debanjan Datta (Seattle) and Gerald Friedland (Alameda, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for generating synthetic data and/or machine learning model testing are described. For example, synthetic data may be generated according to a request by selecting one or more transformation modules to be used to generate synthetic data, instantiating the selected one or more transformation modules, and applying the selected one or more transformation modules in a defined order ...