ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,405, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to CAMP Systems International Inc. (Merrimack, N.H.).

"Training a machine learning model for hardware component identification" was invented by Heather O Levesque (New Brunswick, Canada), James E Allman Jr. (Mephis, Tenn.), Lisa K Garcia (Olive Branch, Miss.), Jason W Buhro (Austin, Texas), Sean M Lanagan (Concord, Mass.) and John P Herrman (Eads, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method are disclosed for training a machine-learned model. A device retrieves entries from a database that each correspond a hardware component to a value. The device inputs the entries into a weighti...