ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,485, issued on April 15, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Efficient real time serving of ensemble models" was invented by Aviv Ben Arie (Ramat Gan, Israel) and Omer Zalmanson (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method implements efficient real time serving of ensemble models. The method includes receiving an input and processing the input with an abridged model to generate a set of component scores and an abridged score. The method further includes processing the set of component scores with a deviation threshold to select one of the abridged score and an ensemble score as an output and presentin...