US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 4 for "Permutation invariance for representing linearized tabular data" (New York, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,796, issued on March 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Permutation invariance for representing linearized tabular data" was invented by Sarthak Dash (Jersey City, N.Y.), Sugato Bagchi (White Plains, N.Y.), Nandana Mihindukulasooriya (Cambridge, Mass.) and Alfio Massimiliano Gliozzo (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment for encoding permutation-invariant representations of linearized tabular data. The embodiment may receive input including tabular data and linearize a column or row within the received tabular data. The embodiment may automatically assign an increasing sequ...