US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Vector processing of decision trees to form inferences" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,891, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Vector processing of decision trees to form inferences" was invented by Jan Van Lunteren (Ruschlikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and computer program product for performing machine learning inferences are disclosed. A set of input records to be processed by decision trees is selected, and the decision trees are run. Running the decision trees includes identifying operations to be performed as matrix elements, wherein the matrix elements correspond to the input records. Running the decision trees also includes using ...