ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,817, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performing data pre-processing operations during data preparation of a machine learning lifecycle" was invented by Petr Novotny (Mount Kisco, N.Y.), Qi Zhang (Elmsford, N.Y.), Lei Yu (Sleepy Hollow, N.Y.) and Hong Min (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In accordance with an embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for performing data pre-processing operations during data preparation of a machine learning lifecycle. The method includes defining one or more data pre-processing functions for applying to data stored in a ...