US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 16 for "Using a machine learning model to optimize groupings in a breakout session in a virtual classroom" (New York, North Carolina, Virginia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,498, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Using a machine learning model to optimize groupings in a breakout session in a virtual classroom" was invented by Jacob Thomas Covell (New York), Pranav Chunduri (Cary, N.C.), Clarissa Ho (New York) and Clement Decrop (Arlington, Va.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method and a computer program product for optimizing groupings in a breakout session in a virtual classroom. A computer retrieves profiles of students in the virtual classroom, where the profiles of the students include data of academic performances of the ...