ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,340, issued on May 20, was assigned to AT&T Intellectual Property I LP (Atlanta).

"Constructing machine learning models" was invented by Chris Vo (Sachse, Texas), Jeremy T. Fix (Acworth, Ga.) and Robert Woods Jr. (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes initializing a configuration file for a machine learning model, wherein the initializing is performed in response to receiving a request from a user, and wherein the configuration file comprises a plurality of sections that is configurable by the user, configuring at least one parameter of a feature engineering rules section of the configuration file, wh...