ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,201, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamically optimizing decision tree inferences" was invented by Jan Van Lunteren (Ruschlikon, Switzerland), Nikolaos Papandreou (Thalwil, Switzerland), Charalampos Pozidis (Thalwil, Switzerland), Martin Petermann (Zurich, Switzerland), Thomas Parnell (Zurich, Switzerland) and Milos Stanisavljevic (Adliswil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of dynamically optimizing decision tree inference is provided. The method, which is performed at the computerized system, repeatedly executes one or more decision trees for inference pur...