US Patent Issued to Ecolab USA on Jan. 28 for "Machine learning classification or scoring of cleaning outcomes in cleaning machines" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,207,776, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Ecolab USA Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).

"Machine learning classification or scoring of cleaning outcomes in cleaning machines" was invented by Alissa R. Ellingson (Woodbury, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated cleaning machine includes a trained cleaning outcome classifier that automatically classifies or scores cleaning outcomes for a cleaning machine using machine learning techniques. The cleaning outcome classifier may be trained on training data comprising a plurality of training inputs and a known output for each of the plurality of training inputs. Each of the plurality of traini...