US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on July 8 for "Parallel inference processing by decision tree leaf nodes" (New York Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,354,016, issued on July 8, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Parallel inference processing by decision tree leaf nodes" was invented by Charles E. Hackett (Greenlawn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Processing within a computing environment is facilitated by obtaining, by a decision tree inference accelerator, a decision node result vector based on processing an input data vector through decision nodes of a decision tree. Further, the processing is facilitated by accelerating, by the decision tree inference accelerator, leaf node processing of the decision node result vector. The decision tree infe...