ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,589, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Intuit Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Cross-hierarchical machine learning prediction" was invented by Sheer Dangoor (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Daniel Ben David (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Ido Meir Mintz (Tel Aviv, Israel), Alexander Zhicharevich (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Lior Tabori (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method including training, using training data including a first ontological hierarchical level, trained machine learning models (MLMs) to predict a first output type including a second ontological hierarchical level different than the first ontological hierarchical level....