US Patent Issued to Kinaxis on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for probabilistic estimation in tree-based forecast models" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,739, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Kinaxis Inc. (Ottawa).

"Systems and methods for probabilistic estimation in tree-based forecast models" was invented by Sebastien Ouellet (Ottawa), Leila Mousapour (Ottawa) and Andrii Stepura (Ottawa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods in which a historical data set is pre-processed once per trained machine-learning model; a value of an unknown sample is forecast while tracking a leaf path of the unknown sample; the leaf path of the unknown sample is limited to a subset of trees in each trained-machine model; a set of related historical samples is determined based on the leaf path ...