US Patent Issued to EQUIFAX on May 13 for "Training tree-based machine-learning modeling algorithms for predicting outputs and generating explanatory data" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,552, issued on May 13, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Training tree-based machine-learning modeling algorithms for predicting outputs and generating explanatory data" was invented by Lewis Jordan (Atlanta), Matthew Turner (Cumming, Ga.) and Finto Antony (Cumming, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects involve training tree-based machine-learning models for computing predicted responses and generating explanatory data for the models. For example, independent variables having relationships with a response variable are identified. Each independent variable corresponds to an action or observation for an entity. The ...