ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,911, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INTUIT INC. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Entity segmentation by event rate optimization" was invented by Raymond Perkins (Philadelphia), Steven Yeh (New York), Atanu Roy (Dublin, Calif.), Brendan McIntyre (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Shubham Sah (Dublin, Calif.) and Chenyu Shi (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to machine learning-based techniques for segmenting entity populations. Embodiments include approximating distributions for outputs generated by a classification machine learning model and ground truth occurrences of a targeted event. A first dist...