ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,670, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automated ground truth generation using a neuro-symbolic metamodel" was invented by Hugo Latapie (Long Beach, Calif.), Gaowen Liu (Austin, Texas), Ozkan Kilic (Long Beach, Calif.), Adam James Lawrence (Pasadena, Calif.) and Ramana Rao V. R. Kompella (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device receives, from a requestor, a request for a set of ground truth examples of a particular type to be used to train a machine learning model. The request includes context data regarding a location to be analyzed by the machine learn...