ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,032, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Feature selection via an ensemble of gating layers" was invented by Ming Chen (Los Angeles), Xia Xiao (Los Angeles) and Youlong Cheng (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to feature selection via an ensemble of gating layers. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a plurality of gating layers is provided to be trained together with a machine learning model. At each update step, one of the plurality of gating layers is selected to perform gating parameter value update together with model ...