ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,803, issued on April 1, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Automatic improvement of software applications" was invented by Xiaowen Wang (Mountain View, Calif.), Cheuk Yu Tsang (Hayward, Calif.) and Jonathan Seppi (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method including tracking data describing a new population of users of a software application including different graphical user interfaces (GUIs). The method also includes generating a distribution by mapping the data to lookalike cohorts. The method also includes extracting, using a random sampling algorithm, samples from the di...