US Patent Issued to KOUNT on June 17 for "Exponentially smoothed categorical encoding to control access to a network resource" (Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,276, issued on June 17, was assigned to KOUNT INC. (Boise, Idaho).

"Exponentially smoothed categorical encoding to control access to a network resource" was invented by Nathan Daniel Monnig (Boise, Idaho), Andrew Nader Rafla (Boise, Idaho) and Samuel Ward Schrader (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an example of a method described herein, historical events occurring over a network are detected, and at least one of the historical events is associated with an observed value of a categorical variable. A numerical aggregate value representing the observed value is updated by applying an exponential smoothing function to (i) ...