ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,195, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Targeted data acquisition for model training" was invented by Namit Kabra (Hyderabad, India), Ritesh Kumar Gupta (Hyderabad, India), Vijay Ekambaram (Chennai, India) and Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Targeted acquisition of data for model training includes identifying attributes of classified samples of a collection of samples classified by a classification model, and generating at least one query based on the identified attributes, the at least one query tailored, based on the attributes, to...