ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,082, issued on May 13, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Image generation using adversarial attacks for imbalanced datasets" was invented by Gaurav Mittal (Redmond, Wash.), Nikolaos Karianakis (Sammamish, Wash.), Victor Manuel Fragoso Rojas (Bellevue, Wash.), Mei Chen (Redmond, Wash.) and Jedrzej Jakub Kozerawski (Goleta, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of balancing a dataset for a machine learning model includes identifying confusing classes of few-shot classes for a machine learning model during validation. One of the confusing classes and an image from one of the few-shot classes ...