ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,709, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Feature generation optimization" was invented by Chintan Rajyaguru (Cary, N.C.), Donnie Allen Smith Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Jeffrey N. Eisen (Newton, Mass.) and Willie Robert Patten Jr. (Hurdle Mills, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include receiving data, mapping a plurality of features to a plurality of attributes of the data, and generating a feature-to-attribute map based on said mappin...