ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,664, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Addressing data scarcity in early-cycle annual software services" was invented by Jingyuan Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Shankar Sankararaman (Burlingame, Calif.), Apurva Swarnakar (Chicago) and Pragya Tripathi (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain aspects of the disclosure provide a method for training a machine-learning model for predicting content recommendations. The method may include obtaining multi-year training data associated with the software subscription service, the multi-year training data comprising features and content relevance l...