US Patent Issued to Equifax on March 11 for "Creating predictor variables for prediction models from unstructured data using natural language processing" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,756, issued on March 11, was assigned to Equifax Inc. (Atlanta).

"Creating predictor variables for prediction models from unstructured data using natural language processing" was invented by Howard Hugh Hamilton (Atlanta) and Terry Woodford (Kennesaw, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for creating predictor variables from unstructured data for prediction models are provided. A variable creation application receives unstructured data and processing the unstructured data to generate processed data. Based on the processed data, the variable creation application generates an attribute pool that contains multiple pre...