US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 18 for "Wasserstein barycenter model ensembling" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,390, issued on March 18, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Wasserstein barycenter model ensembling" was invented by Youssef Mroueh (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Pierre L. Dognin (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Igor Melnyk (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Jarret Ross (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Tom Sercu (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Cicero Nogueira Dos Santos (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, system and apparatus of ensembling, including inputting a set of models that predict different sets of attributes, determining a source set of attributes and a target set of attributes using a bar...