ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,412,102, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Interactive feature engineering in automatic machine learning with domain knowledge" was invented by Dakuo Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Udayan Khurana (White Plains, N.Y.), Daniel Karl I. Weidele (Cambridge, Mass.), Arunima Chaudhary (Boston), Carolina Maria Spina (Olavarria, Argentina), Abel Valente (Villa Elisa, Argentina), Chuang Gan (Cambridge, Mass.), Horst Cornelius Samulowitz (Armonk, N.Y.) and Lisa Amini (Weston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dataset including features and values associated with the features can be received. E...