ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,828, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Domain adaptation" was invented by Yuan Zhou (Beijing) and Yi Qin Yu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implement method for domain adaptation. According to the method, training data from a target domain may be classified by using a group of source models of a source domain, where each of the source models is trained to classify data from the source domain. A first pseudo label indicating a category of the training data may be generated by aggregating classification results of the source models based on respective weights of t...