ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,962, issued on March 18, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Machine learning for identifying idle sessions" was invented by Prerana Dharmesh Gambhir (San Jose, Calif.), Sharena Meena Pari-Monasch (Union City, Calif.), Khoa Dang Nguyen (Murphy, Texas), Yiming Shi (Milpitas, Calif.) and Yongchang Dong (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for identifying and evicting idle sessions include training a machine learning model as a session classifying model to learn rules for classifying active sessions between clients and the cloud-based service. The session classifying mod...