ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,873, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Customized predictive analytical model training" was invented by Jordan M. Breckenridge (Menlo Park, Calif.), Travis H. K. Green (New York), Robert Kaplow (New York), Wei-Hao Lin (New York) and Gideon S. Mann (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on one or more computer storage devices, for training predictive models. Multiple training data records are received that each include an input data portion and an output data portion. A training data type is determined that corresponds to the t...