ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,687, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to BEIJING BAIDU NETCOM SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Beijing) and State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (University of Macau) (Macau S.A.R., China).

"Method and apparatus for training classification model and data classification" was invented by Kafeng Wang (Beijing), Chengzhong Xu (Macau S.A.R., China), Haoyi Xiong (Beijing), Xingjian Li (Beijing) and Dejing Dou (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus for training a classification model and data classification includes: obtaining a sample set and a pre-trained classification model, wherein the classif...