ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,946, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Esurance Insurance Services Inc. (San Francisco).

"Machine learning based function testing" was invented by Cheryl Roberts (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for determining the performance metric of a function may include interpolating the performance metric of the function relative to a known performance metric of a reference function. The performance metric of the function may be interpolated based on a first difference in a performance of the function measured by applying a first machine learning model and a performance of the function measured by applying a second machi...