US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Nov. 4 for "Neural ODE for irregularly-sampled time series" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,462,146, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neural ODE for irregularly-sampled time series" was invented by Toshiya Iwamori (Tokyo), Hiroki Yanagisawa (Kawasaki, Japan), Akira Koseki (Yokohama, Japan) and Takayuki Katsuki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for updating hidden states in a recurrent neural network (RNN) to predict future data from multivariate time-series data with irregular time intervals is provided including inputting, for each of time steps at observations, observation data at a current time step in the multivariate time-series data t...