ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,409, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to EQUIFAX INC. (Atlanta).

"Evaluation of modeling algorithms with continuous outputs" was invented by Lefei Liu (Alpharetta, Ga.), Peter Liu (Alpharetta, Ga.), Jiawei Liu (Alpharetta, Ga.), Peter Gao (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Vickey Chang (Suwanee, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects involve evaluating modeling algorithms whose outputs can impact machine-implemented operating environments. For instance, a computing system generates, from a comparison of a set of estimated attribute values of an attribute to a set of validation attribute values of the attribute, a discretized evaluation...