ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,629, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dalian Minzu University (Dalian, China).

"Method for constructing support vector machine of nonparallel structure" was invented by Liguo Wang (Dalian, China), Guangxin Liu (Dalian, China), Ying Xiao (Dalian, China), Danfeng Liu (Dalian, China) and Haitao Liu (Dalian, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for constructing a support vector machine of a nonparallel structure is provided. On the basis of a traditional parallel support vector machine (SVM), a least square term of samples is added, an additional empirical risk minimization term and an offset constraint term are added to an or...