US Patent Issued to Capital One Services on Oct. 7 for "Sequential synthesis and selection for feature engineering" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,237, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Capital One Services LLC (McLean, Va.).

"Sequential synthesis and selection for feature engineering" was invented by Michael Langford (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods, as described herein, relate to sequential synthesis and selection for feature engineering. A dataset may be associated with a label defining a machine-learning target attribute and a received operation that can be applied to at least one of the existing features of the dataset. One or more potential features may be generated by applying the operation to one or more existing features. For each of the ...