US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Unsupervised learning from public tabular datasets" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,924, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Unsupervised learning from public tabular datasets" was invented by Thanh Lam Hoang (Maynooth, Ireland), Gabriele Picco (Dublin), Lam Minh Nguyen (Ossining, N.Y.) and Dzung Tien Phan (Pleasantville, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product and system are provided for feature engineering and synthetic data generation. A processor retrieves a plurality of data tables, where the plurality of data tables are heterogeneous in format and content. A processor trains a variational auto-encoder (VAE) model on the pluralit...