US Patent Issued to EQUIFAX on July 15 for "Optimizing neural networks for generating analytical or predictive outputs" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,289, issued on July 15, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Optimizing neural networks for generating analytical or predictive outputs" was invented by Lewis Jordan (Atlanta), Matthew Turner (Cumming, Ga.) and Michael McBurnett (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain embodiments involve generating or optimizing a neural network for generating analytical or predictive outputs. The neural network can be generated using a relationship between various predictor variables and an outcome (e.g., a condition's presence or absence). The neural network can be used to determine a relationship between each of the predictor vari...