ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,719, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Time-series data featurization" was invented by Kun Lu (Saratoga, Calif.), Wei Wang (Cupertino, Calif.), Jiaguyue Xu (Fremont, Calif.), Nazanin Zaker Habibabadi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Diane Zhang Tam (San Diego) and Nathan Osborne (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to methods, systems, and apparatuses for featurizing time-series data to enhance machine learning model training. Time-series data, such as transaction records, is preprocessed to identify fields including descriptive and categorical information. Categories are a...