ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,882, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Machine learning algorithm search with symbolic programming" was invented by Daiyi Peng (Cupertino, Calif.), Yifeng Lu (Cupertino, Calif.) and Quoc V. Le (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for searching for an output machine learning (ML) algorithm to perform an ML task is described. The method comprising: receiving data specifying an input ML algorithm; receiving data specifying a search algorithm that searches for candidate ML algorithms and an evaluation function that evaluates the performance of candidate ML algorithms; generating...