US Patent Issued to AT&T Intellectual Property I on July 29 for "Facilitating selection of categorical features in machine learning" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,733, issued on July 29, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Facilitating selection of categorical features in machine learning" was invented by James Pratt (Round Rock, Texas), Abhay Dabholkar (Allen, Texas), Vladimir Sevastyanov (Fort Worth, Texas) and Nikhlesh Agrawal (McKinney, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Facilitating selection of the most significant set of categorical features in machine learning is provided herein. Operations of a system include determining a list of unique values of a categorical variable. The operations also include calculating respective mean values, of a target variable, for...