US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 11 for "Feedback driven decision support in partially observable settings" (Massachusetts, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,920, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Feedback driven decision support in partially observable settings" was invented by Sohini Upadhyay (Cambridge, Mass.), Yasaman Khazaeni (Needham, Mass.), Djallel Bouneffouf (Wappinger Falls, N.Y.) and Mayank Agarwal (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel formulation called the Context-Attentive Bandit with Observations (CABO) is described, where only a limited number of features can be accessed by the learner. The present invention is applicable to many problems including problems arising in clinical settings and dialog sy...