ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,464, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"System for constructing effective machine-learning pipelines with optimized outcomes" was invented by Evelyn Duesterwald (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Martin Hirzel (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Darrell Reimer (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, apparatus and a method for constructing pipelines, including enumerate a subspace of valid integrated pipelines, collecting a set of metrics for each of the plurality of pipelines, reducing the set of metrics to a single metric, selecting a final integrated pipeline from amon...