US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Rule induction to find and describe patterns in data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,254, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Rule induction to find and describe patterns in data" was invented by Edmund Chi Man Tse (Seattle), Brett Owens Simons (Woodinville, Wash.), Sandeep Repaka (Issaquah, Wash.) and Yatpang Cheung (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rule induction is used to produce human readable descriptions of patterns within a dataset. A rule induction algorithm or classifier is a type supervised machine learning classification algorithm. A rule induction classifier is trained, which involves using labelled examples in the dataset to produce a set of rules...