US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Neural network trained using ordinal loss function" (Illinois, Georgia, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,844, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Neural network trained using ordinal loss function" was invented by Robert Vanderheyden (Acworth, Ga.), William Chamberlin (Palatine, Ill.) and John Handy Bosma (Leander, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Training an ordinal mapping deep neural network (OMDNN) can include receiving multiple samples, each a computer-processable data structure corresponding to a real-world object and including a data element indicating one of n predefined classes to which each sample is linked. Each sample can be mapped by the OMDNN to sample points of a m...