ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,912, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Boundary detection for synthetic data generation" was invented by Bhavna Agrawal (Armonk, N.Y.), Anuradha Bhamidipaty (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Jayshree Sanjayam (Bangalore, India), Jonathan D. Dunne (Dungarvan, Ireland) and Sarika Budhiraja (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method can determine a linguistic boundary condition for synthetic data generation in a multi-class classification problem. The method includes analyzing empirical labelled data using linguistic and vector representation techniques. ...